LISTENING SKILL

Listening skill is  known as receptive skills as learners do not need to produce language with this. They receive and understand it. This skill is also called a passive skills. The productive skills are speaking and writing because learners are applying these skills during the process of producing a language. They are also known as active skills. As far as the teaching English is concerned problems arise regarding teaching active skills as well as passive skills in order to develop these skills in students, teachers’ skills should be in a developed one. 

        Improving listening skills must be a top priority for anyone who wants to become specialized at speaking a second language.It is helpful in terms of learning a language to create a distinction.It is important because the second of the two skills is seen as pivotal to success.

GENERAL LISTENING SKILLS

There are our general listening skills, like once we hear someone tell us about something or other.These skills operate typically at the extent of meaning.General listening skills depend upon a number of factors. General listening skills include something that is not generally talked about and that is listening to yourself.Listening to yourself is as important as taking note of others.It is what enables us to keep an eye on what we are saying and check it against what we try tonconvey in our saying.How many times have you caught yourself thinking, "That's not what I meant to say”, and then adjusting what you said.

 

  FOCUSED LISTENING SKILLS

 

With general listening skills we even have focused listening skills as well. These are employed when you are specialized on  some particular aspect of what you are listening to or taking note of.At a job interview for example we might be very carefully attuned to looking for clues as to what to talk about.Or happening a date, finding some evidence on what the opposite is brooding about you. Focused listening skills are a specific set of skills that require to be developed in areas that we might not be wont to .In formal classes or tuition, these are often clearly visible because the teacher (or text) gets you to specialise in some aspect of the language