Listening is an area that many students think they need to improve. In the communicative
classroom, teaching listening skills should be approached in the same way as the other skills –
with a communicative purpose. Often, listening is taught with a linguistic purpose first and
foremost – to improve and develop listening skills in the target language.
Firstly, teachers need to encourage students to recognize that listening is a skill that takes
practice. Students will not make significant progress unless they are willing to listen to English
outside of the classroom, even though it is challenging for them. Actually, teachers need to
provide effective listening lessons that help students gain confidence and learn strategies that
they can apply in different situations.

Obviously, in the ESL classroom, simply playing a recorded dialogue and then asking students
to correctly answer pre-cast comprehension questions based on that dialogue strips listening of
nearly all of its real-world communicative context.

Secondky, better listening lessons will also help learners to clear up misconceptions and
miscues as they listen.  In other words, developing listening skills requires that students are
provided with feedback and support in the process of listening, not just based on their
comprehension after they have finished listening.

In addition, keeping the introduction fluency-focused to encourage more engagement with the
topic is necessary. This helps warm students up to the topic. In the real world, we don’t usually
listen to information without having some idea of what we are going to be listening to, and when
given a choice, we don’t usually listen to things that aren’t of interest to us.

It can be seen that, from the students’ perspective, new listening is often a wall of words from
which they are able to glean small bits of meaning. Help them breakthrough by giving them
specific tasks for listening, especially at the lower levels.
In short, encouraging students to listen to English for at least 15 minutes a day. Even if they
have difficulty understanding what is being said. Regular listening will help habituate their ears
to the rhythms of natural speech, which will help in the long run.