The document discusses the four essential language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, with a particular emphasis on the importance of listening. It highlights listening as a fundamental skill that significantly impacts communication in various professional settings, with students receiving a large portion of their information through listening. Effective listening requires focus and attention, and is crucial for understanding and clear communication.

2. Language Skills
There are in general, four language skills.
Listening
Speaking
Reading
writing

3. Liste
ning
Speak
ing
Reading
Writing

4. Listening Skill
Listening is the first of the four language
skills.
Listening is the process of
receiving, attending to, and assigning
meaning to aural and visual stimuli

5. Key meaning
of listen L= look
I= inquire
S= summaries
T=take notes
E= encourage
N= neturalise

6. Receiving language through ears
Identifying the sound of speech
Receive individual
sounds(letters, stress, rhythm, and pauses)

7. Importance of
listening
It is essential for language teachers to help
their students become effective listeners.
It is an important skill for us to hone.
We listen far more than we speak.

8. In most profession settings from 41 percent
to 60 percent or more of our communication
time is spent listening.
Students may receive as much as 90% of
their in-school information through listening
to instructors and to one another.

9.  Focus and attention
 Work at harder
 Second language requires even great
focus

10. Listening is like painting, like colour, in day to day
environment.
Listening is important or face to face
encounters, telephone messages, for enjoyment of
radio and television programs, formal lectures, etc.

11. For practice we can listen recorded voices.
The most important thing is to listen to a
variety of voices as often as we can.

12. In our own language , listening is usually
the first language skill that we learn.
A good listener tried to understand
throughly what the other person is saying.

13. “Listening looks easy, but it’s not simple.
Every head is a world”
“If speaking is silver, then listening is
gold”

14. Understand what people are saying
To speak clear
To pronounce words properly
Intonation
Stress
Make speech easier

16. Dictat
ion
By
radio
News
Poetry

17. Telephone
Recorded Short
lesson passage
Advertise TV
ment programs

18. (http:aei.uoregon.edu/iep/iep.htm)
(http://www.esl-lab.com)