TEACHING LISTENING COMPREHENSION Listening is the ability to identify and understand what others are saying. This involves understanding a speaker's accent or pronunciation, his grammar and his vocabulary, and grasping his meaning. Listening is the ability to understand the meaning of the words one hears and to relate to them in some way. Listening comprehension is a complex process in which listeners play an active role in discriminating between sounds, understanding vocabulary and grammatical structures, interpreting intonation and stress, and finally, making use of all the skills mentioned above, interpreting the utterance within the socio-cultural context. The Importance of Listening 1- Listening is the most common communicative activity in daily life: "we can expect to listen twice as much as we speak, four times more than...