Role Of Listening In English Language

Chapter 1. Current Conditions Of The Listening Skills Of The English Language
1.1. Listening is a modality of language learning Listening is a skill that underlies rest of the necessary skills. It is the key to developing and maintaining relationships, making decisions and solving the problems. People spend as much as half of their communication time for listening. The importance of listening comprehension in L2 learning is now recognized very well. Researchers and textbook designers are more and more aware of its growing importance; they not only recommend that listening should be taught in L2 learning programs but insist that adequate materials and strategies should be used to teach it efficiently.
Listening is the first of the four language

Stainberg, Sh (2007) states: "Listening is more complex than merely hearing. It is a process that consists of four stages: sensing and attending, understanding and interpreting, remembering, and responding . . . The stages occur in sequence but we are generally unaware of them." Listening involves a sender (a person, radio, television), a message and a receiver (the listener). Listeners often must process messages as they come, even if they are still processing what they have just heard, without backtracking or looking ahead. In addition, listeners must cope with the sender's choice of vocabulary, structure, and rate of delivery. The complexity of the listening process is magnified in second language contexts, where the receiver also has incomplete control of the language. In our society today, there are numerous deterrents to listening. Some are obvious and some are quite subtle. Without having a clear understanding that barriers existance, we can’t possibly hope to overcome them in our

Saricoban added that students can improve their listening skills - and gain valuable language input - through a combination of extensive and intensive listening material and procedures. Listening of both kinds is especially important since it provides the perfect opportunity to hear voices other than the teacher's, enables students to acquire good speaking habits as a result of the spoken English they absorb and helps to improve their pronunciation. Rivers (1978) says that “listening is a creative skill which means people comprehend the sound falling on their ears, and take the raw material of words, arrangements of words, and the rise and fall the voice, and from this material they create significance”. He also states that listening skill is listening with comprehension, attention and appreciation. Then, listening activity needs to integrate skills of language, such as pronunciation, vocabulary mastery, writing, speaking, and reading. However, Underwood (1990) mentions some kinds of difficulties in listening that are directly related to the students themselves. One of the problems is based on the fact that students have established learning habits in the sense that