The document discusses developing language skills such as listening, reading, writing, and speaking. It focuses on listening skills and identifies 5 reasons for listening as well as 6 types of listening. The types include informative, discriminative, comprehensive, therapeutic, critical, and appreciative listening. It also outlines the phases of listening as pre-listening, while-listening, and post-listening. Micro skills of listening and 3 most frequent sub-skills are identified as listening for gist, specific information, and in detail.