Practical guidelines to the planning of a listening lesson based on task-based learning approach

Abstract

Listening plays a fundamental role in the language acquisition, making possible the oral interaction between the learners. A focus on listening skills development as well as the application of listening strategies will help learners to decode English input and achieve bigger success in English learning. That’s why a correct designing of Listening Unit Planning Sheet is imperative. It is important for the teacher to provide different listening activities during the lessons to become actively engaged in the listening process. Nowadays authentic listening materials are considered as one of the greatest resources of teaching listening skills for EFL which should be included in EFL classes. Nevertheless, even if listeners understand all the text words, they may have significant difficulties in comprehending the whole meaning if they are not familiar with the context.