6. Dealing with Listening Skills
This unit focuses on the development of listening comprehension skills in the foreign language. The unit begins with an overview of models of the listening comprehension process highlighting the range of listening skills and strategies that students need to develop. Factors affecting listening comprehension difficulty for native speakers and foreign language learners are then discussed. The last part of the unit highlights the stages of a listening lesson, the purpose of each stage and kinds of activities that can be used in each stage to develop students’ reading comprehension skills.
