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The comprehension skills and the narrative skills are two principal areas of activity in language teaching. Listening and reading refer to the perceptive skills as they involve receiving and comprehending information, while speaking and writing are known as the productive skills as they both require the production of language and some language output. Same as it is in mother language acquisition, listening is the first language skill to be acquired in foreign language. So that, developing listening skills helps to enhance speaking, reading and writing skills as well as enabling faster progress in learning language. In this essay, the function and the importance of the listening skills in foreign language teaching is examined since it is the basis of an accurate language comprehension and the outset of transmitting the information obtained through listening by means of speech and writing in the most appropriate pattern. In this context, in the study, listening types, listening models, stages of listening activities, points to be considered during the implementation and some problems encountered during listening are mentioned. In the conclusion, the information obtained during the literature review for the preparation of this study has been evaluated and some suggestions have been made regarding the teaching of listening.

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