tips on listening...

Listening has been viewed hitherto as a passive skill. The recent approaches in language teaching have proven this is wrong. The learner should be actively involved in the communication as listening skills demand it. Listening skills require adequate knowledge in both linguistic and non linguistic spheres .the linguistic competence of the learner helps in dividing sounds into meaningful units when the process of linguistic extraction of sounds fail, there is a failure in the extraction of meaning. So, focusing on the mental process, Listening comprehension, a step further, is an active process which includes the aural input, the construction of meaning from the message, and the relation the message has to the existing knowledge.