The Use of Post-Listening Activities for Developing Speaking and Listening Comprehension

Abstract

Good ability in listening means having competence to comprehend information during
listening activities. Language focuses on listening and reading that can be named as passive or receptive skills, while speaking and writing can be named as, active or productive skills. If our students hear highly proficient speakers presenting about economy or ordering their special meal, it will help them do the same more effectively than any explanation or written language summary we can offer. Students can familiarize themselves with discourse patterns, intonation, pronunciation, rhythm, while listening. Therefore, teaching language through listening as one of the most essential skills for both communication and language learning. At the same time, it facilities the emergence of the other language skills: speaking, reading and etc. It provides the basis for developing them and it should not only be treated inside classrooms as a basis for developing other language skills, particularly speaking, it should also be simultaneously taught and developed as a skill in its own right, especially in the first stages of learning a foreign language.