Innovation in Language Learning

in the domain of communicative language teaching four language skills - listening, speaking reading and writing are of equal importance. Within the language teaching context teachers must focus continuously on these communicative skills. But research on listening in general language is very limited as the Cinderella skill in language teaching practice. Being one of the key skills for communication, listening refers to the ability of the learner to introduce and expose the language appropriately and purposefully in different communicative contexts.  

The main goal of the current paper is to introduce and consider some methodological issues related to the development of the learners’ listening skills through the use of authentic material in class.

Within the scope of this study we tried to observe and analyse the problem of its development, accentuating the significance of authentic material produced and used for real-life communicative purposes. Correspondingly different exercises and techniques have been elaborated and introduced to specify and highlight the effective teaching of English listening through the authenticity.