It should be made clear at this point that “learning to listen” has nothing to do with improving the physical properties of anyone’s actual hearing mechanism: phrases such as “ to have a good ear for languages”, to “train” or “improve the ear”, refer to the ear in a metaphorical sense only. Aside from those individuals who are unfortunate enough to have truly defective hearing (most of whom will not even try to learn foreign languages, let alone teach them), it can be assumed that the actual hearing of the language learner is adequate to his task. What is required, though, is that he should learn to direct his attention to the auditory phenomena of the new language, and that he should do so in a way quite different from the way he listens to and understands his own language: through long training in the mother tongue (quite properly) get into the habit of noticing by and large only the parts that are relevant to catching the meaning, and of paying no attention to–literally not noticing–anything else. (p. 213)
It should be made clear at this point that “learning to listen” has nothing to do with improving the physical properties of anyone’s actual hearing mechanism: phrases such as “ to have a good ear for languages”, to “train” or “improve the ear”, refer to the ear in a metaphorical sense only. Aside from those individuals who are unfortunate enough to have truly defective hearing (most of whom will not even try to learn foreign languages, let alone teach them), it can be assumed that the actual hearing of the language learner is adequate to his task. What is required, though, is that he should learn to direct his attention to the auditory phenomena of the new language, and that he should do so in a way quite different from the way he listens to and understands his own language: through long training in the mother tongue (quite properly) get into the habit of noticing by and large only the parts that are relevant to catching the meaning, and of paying no attention to–literally not noticing–anything else. (p. 213)
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