What is listening?
Every day we listen to many different things in many different ways.Whether it is conversation with a colleague, the TV news, or a new music CD, we listen. In our native language at least, we seem to automatically know "how to listen and what we are listening for. To language learners, listening is far more challenging. In this chapter, we will explore how listening works and ways to help learners become more effective listeners. Listening is an active, purposeful process of making sense of what we hear. Language skills are often categorized as receptive or productive. Speaking and writing are the productive skills. Listening. along with reading. is a receptiveskill. 
