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[darkcity]

OK i did a search on some listening disability topics, but i think all of them dealt with kids.

I teach one on one. One of my students is an older man, a minister.

He's a nice guy, studies very hard, but it's clear that he is making absolutely no progress with his listening. Specifically, he has problems comprehending and differentiating the sounds when a full sentence is spoken normally, with the sound shifts and transitions from word to word (sorry, i don't know the linguistic term for this).

if I say the word individually, he may be able to understand, and he can nod and smile his way through a conversation. but it's clear that I'm not getting through to him.

quite frankly, i don't have the balls to tell him that he may very well have a learning disability. so i have to deal with him for the next few months. anyone have good references or links where he can practice his listening?

he's willing to put in the time but has yet to find a method that works.

thanks in advance.

[mongolian spot]

just dont care!

I have a guy in one of my adult classes and hes just shit. Everything he says is painful. I think he has a mental problem but i just carry on as normal and ignore it. Sometimes i play jokes on him.

Korean culture promotes this so use it, do nothing, say nothing and get paid. Everyone is happy.

[Rusty Shackleford]

I have a co-teacher with the exact same issue. Go figure.

[darkcity]

[halfmanhalfbiscuit]

Listening and speaking are connected.

Go through this programme with him, get him set up with how to go through it and have some sentences or a short passage that he has to come back to you with and recite. Then give him a short recording and get him to transcribe it. Those would be my first steps for his self guided study.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html

[NightSky]

difficult. I have an adult who is really keen on improving his pronunciation in particular, but though he can repeat fine, when he speaks of his own accord he attaches random "s"s to everything. like he'll actually say, "hellos, I'm sorrys, I can't attend class todays".

I also had a younger learner (fourth grade) with a hearing disability. I wondered why his speaking and general attention-paying skills were so bad. Nobody (not him, not his parents) thought to tell me about his disability until I'd had him forever.

[halfmanhalfbiscuit]

[darkcity]

[smoggy]

The way I teach has worked for me in learning Fr., It. and Ger. I read something, write it have it corrected and then speak about it. Organizing the thoughts could work for him. For him, start having him write basic sentences and then discuss them. It is worth a try.

[halfmanhalfbiscuit]