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Carolyn Kerr's ELT blog post on listening problems (with French L1 learners):

Certain sounds emerged as common problem areas:

/n/ – all of the learners – ‘some flowers’ – ‘sun flowers’

/ʤ/ – five of the learners – ‘jeep’ – ‘cheap’

/ɑ:/ – five of the learners – ‘hat’ – ‘heart’

/h/ – five of the learners – ‘ill’ – ‘hill’

If anyone has any insights or observations around these clusters of problem sounds in terms of sound reception I’d be very glad to hear about it! They seem to be ‘typical’ problem sounds for French speakers but I’d love to know more if anyone has any ideas.

Students seems to get frustrated very quickly when it comes to listening.  Here are a few simple ideas to help students improved their listening skills, without too much pressure!  Click on the link for an explanation of how to conduct each activity.

Shona Whyte:

This post by "Learning Spy" David Didau concerns teaching native language writing in high school, but has ideas that can apply to second and foreign language writing too, as one reader points out:

Jacqui Turner - 
These ideas have great implications for the MFL classroom too. I teach French and not only do students have to demonstrate a rich and varied vocabulary, but they must do so with an array of verb constructions too. The ‘writing to order’ idea combines these aspects beautifully. I also feel getting them to slow down would help them reflect on their overall linguistic accuracy and hopefully help minimise language errors. It would seem students don't proofread in any language! Many thanks for sharing.