... understand the meaning of vocabulary by discriminating sounds, to understand sentence meaning, and to monitor and control the meaning of discourses by understanding sentence meaning. Since the 1970s, ... receiving understandable input and listening ability is the critical component in achieving understandable language input .Given the importance of listening in language learning and teaching, it is ... Ronald and Roskelly(1985), listening as an active process requiring the same skills of prediction, hypothesizing, checking, revising, and generalizing that writing and reading demand; and these...