Teaching Listening Comprehension as a Part of Educational Process at School

Abstract

This paper discusses listening comprehension as a part of educational process at school. Listening comprehension is concerned with decoding of a speech, which involves continual mental processing, concentrated attention, and memory. Listening plays a dual function: as a means and as an aim of instruction. In real school practice these two functions are closely interrelated. Listening comprehension as a means of instruction enables the learners to acquaint themselves with a new language and speech material, and serves to inculcate habits and skills in all types of communication.