Purpose of the study Significance of the Study

as putting pictures in a right sequence, following directions on a map, checking of items in a photograph, completing a grid, chart or timetable etc. At the developed stage, some language based tasks requiring constructing meaning, inferring decisions, interpreting text and understanding gist are usually recommended. Completing cloze exercises or giving one or two word answers, multiple choices, predicting the next utterances, forming connected sets of notes, inferring opinions, or interpreting parts of the text are some samples. 4 b. Intensive listening Intensive listening or Hearing clearly is also a prime aspect of listening as it includes accurate perception without which the second phase of processing meaning becomes very difficult. Listening intensively is quite important to understand the language form of the text as we have to understand both the lexical and grammatical units that lead to form meaning. So, intensive listening requires attention to specific items of language, sound or factual detail such as words, phrase, grammatical units, pragmatic units, sound changes vowel reduction and consonant assimilation, stress, intonation and pauses etc. Feedback on accuracy and repetition on the teachers part promote success here. 5 Intensive listening refers to listening for precise sounds, words, phrases, grammatical units and pragmatic units. Although listening 4 Jeremy Harmer, The Practice of English language Teaching Third Edition Completely Revised and Update,London: Longman,200,P.228 5 Ibid.P.229 intensively is not often called for in everyday situations, the ability to listen intensively whenever required is an essential component of listening proficiency.

3. Technique in Teaching Listening

Sometimes teacher confused to determine appropriate techniques in teaching listening. This occurs that listening was traditionally seen as a passive process by which the listener receives information sent by a speaker. 6 Therefore, here by that should make teachers more creative and more challenged to find the right technique. Here are some teaching techniques of listening that the author uses in this research which taken from Nation Newton and Harmer as followed: a. Oral cloze exercises Oral cloze test is the listeners listen to a story and occasionally the teacher pauses so that the learners can guess the next word in the story. The word should be easy to guess and the guessing should not interrupt the story too much. If the learners can produce very little English, a list of possible words can be put on the board for them to choose from, or they can answer in their first language. Immediately after the learners have guessed, the teacher gives the answer 7 . 6 I.S.P. Nation J. Newton, Teaching ESLEFL Listening and Speaking, New York: Routledge, 2009, p.38 7 I. S.P. Nation J. Newton, Teaching ESLEFL Listening and Speaking, New York: Routledge, 2009, p.44