Modern Teaching Approaches: Listening Skills in Technical English Classes
Modern Teaching Approaches: Listening Skills in Technical English Classes

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the current paper is to analyse and emphasise the emergence and importance of listening skills in foreign language classes in post-communist formal and informal education. Listening represents the language input that is used most frequently and this is why it is an invaluable learning and, therefore, teaching resource. With a prevalence of listening activities in a minor proportion (if any) during communist foreign language instruction, this skill has acquired importance during the past three decades, particularly in the context of globalization and free travel, free exchange of ideas and the liberation of communicative barriers. The challenging nature of the listening process becomes evident in Technical English classes because the receiver also displays incomplete control of technical language and is often confronted with frustration because of limited knowledge. This article seeks to reveal specifically how listening can be used in modern technical education to increase learner knowledge, confidence and autonomy.

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