Listening Comprehension Skills Teaching Methods in Japanese Tertiary Education:Referring to Power-Up English <Pre-Intermediate>

The aim of this paper is to survey the listening comprehension exercises in the integrated English textbook for Japanese university students and suggest effective methods needed to improve the listening comprehension skills in Japanese English learners. Changes of sounds, elision and linking, etc. take place to make articulation smoother from one word to the next in connected speech, which, inturn, causes difficulties in listening comprehension for Japanese English learners. From amongst these, this paper has analyzed elision and linking and proposed methods aimed at training listening abilities of them