Importance Of Listening And Listening Skills

Introduction
Learning a foreign language is a long and demanding process which requires many special skills. Apart from other equally important skills, there are skills which can be called “main skills” of language learning. It includes listening, reading, writing and speaking. The main part of this work is dedicated to listening and understanding.
The Main Skills of Language Learning
It is possible to divide them into special categories according to their parameters.
Writing and speaking are usually considered to be productive skills. The learner is forced to use the language that he has acquired to produce a message through speaking or writing. The learner is active while doing this – that is why speaking and writing are often called active skills too.
On the other hand, listening and reading are frequently labelled as receptive skills. There is no need for the learner to produce a message because the importance in listening and reading lies in receiving a message and understanding it. This passivity of the reader is the reason why these skills are sometimes called passive.
It is probably not possible to declare which of these skills is the most important

There are two main styles of listening and listening comprehension – extensive and intensive. In extensive listening all information are important. The listener should be able to understand even the smallest details of the listened text. Extensive listening could be divided into two subsections. On subsection is global listening whose aim is to understand the main message of the text. The other subsection is selective listening. During selective listening, listeners focus only on a special part of the listened text. Most of the situations in real life in which listening is important could be labelled as selective listening