Listening: Theoritical Considerations

Listening comprehension is the most common activity in our daily life. It is also crucial for obtaining comprehensible input that is required for language learning. Thus in order to get insight into the listening skill its historical overview is addressed by looking at the main approaches that have been developed in language teaching over the years and the place of listening in these approaches. Moreover listening definition and its types are considered. Likewise the issues related to listening processing the difficulties facing EFL learners while listening to verbal discourse as well as listening instruction issues are tackled. Accordingly all what has been stated will be presented in this piece of work.