Nowadays, listening plays a vital role in daily lives. People listen for
different purposes such as entertainment, academic purposes or obtaining
necessary information. Of the four language skills-Listening, Speaking,
Reading, and Writing-that all language learners are supposed to acquire,
Listening is believed to be the most challenging due to the complex and subtle
nature of listening comprehension in a second or foreign language. As a
researcher, I would like to present “How to Improve Listening Skills for Second
Year English Majors at HPU ” for several reasons. First of all, listening is the
most important skill in communication in the real life. Moreover, in learning a
language, listening is a useful means of providing students with comprehensible
input, which is an essential component of the whole language learning proces.
Therefore, I would like to do this research to help students pay more attention to
listening skill. Secondly, learning listening skill is the most difficult in learning a
foreign language. Listening, like reading, is a receptive skill but it is often the
most daunting for students. When reading, a reader usually has more
opportunities to refer back to the text to clarify understanding, which a listener
can not do in most listening contexts such as TV programs, meetings,
discussion, lectures or conversations. That is the reason I would like to out
some suggestion so as to help teachers motivate their students to study listening
skill more excited and better.