The Role of Listening Skills in Developing Communicative Competence: A Case Study in the Language Classroom
Keywords:
Listening Comprehension, Language Skills, Communicative Competence, AccurateAbstract
Communication occurs as long as people receive and send messages which require good listening and speaking skills. Listeners listen, understand and respond in a communication process; therefore without understanding the speaker, learners fail to convey messages. Listening comprehension provides learners meaningful input to enhance their linguistic knowledge. This study investigated the role of listening comprehension in development of communicative competence and found that learners developed high communicative competence by language input provided by listening to language materials.
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