INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND - Volume 5, Issue 1 , March 2016

Pages: 307-313

Importance of Teaching Listening skills in English Language Classroom - A Study

Mr. V. Balachandran Dr. G. Somasundaram

Category: Engineering, Science and Mathematics

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Abstract:

Language is an extraordinary gift of God to man. Language only makes the man fully human. Man, in the words of Aristotle, is a rational animal. Man has attained this rationality because he has the ability to reason, and this reasoning capacity in the bountiful benefit of the language. Language is a resort to man’s aesthetic senses as he recites beautiful poems which engages his fellow humans in their leisure time and of course, academically also it is utilized. Spread of religions and religious harmony depends entirely on the language as all scriptures are put in language only. This paper focuses the method of teaching listening skills in English language classroom.