Developing Listening Comprehension Strategies of Students at Secondary Schools

Abstract

Listening is an inseparable skill of any language, and those, who try to learn any foreign language, cannot master it without listening. Due to its significance, teaching listening along with opting an appropriate material to assist learners to enhance listening skills and to have better adaptation to not only those ESL/EFL curriculum materials set by the government, but also to the natural English outside the classroom, is equally pivotal. This research work discusses first the listening itself both as a subject and a communicative skill, as well as strategies and factors need to be considered whilst selecting proper listening material for creating a better communicative atmosphere during the classes, and provides several relevant examples.