Syntactic and Lexical Simplification

Listening has noticeable significance in EFL teaching. Research in EFL teaching has given considerable boost to listening. This is done by stressing the importance of comprehensible input. Since listening prepares input for learner it is essential in teaching language. Without comprehending input at the right level any learning simply cannot begin. Thus listening is foundational to speaking (Nunan 1997).Different kinds of listening can be discerned which are classified on the basis of a number of variables involving purpose for listening and type of text being listened to. These variables are mixed in different shapes and each of them needs a special strategy (Vanpatten & Williams 2007). Listening is a dynamic interaction of guessing approximation expectation and idealization that naturally uses all the redundancies found in a representative discourse situation (Wang 2010).This chapter includes the issue to be investigated the purpose and the scope of the study research questions research hypothesis the significance of the study and the definition of the key terms.