CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE REVIEW
This study was designed to find out the listening strategies of Thai learner. Therefore, this chapter review the literature under the following heading:
2.1 Meaning of listening
2.2 Significance of listening
2.3 Purpose of listening
2.4 Process of listening
2.5 Problem of listening
2.6 Strategies of teaching listening skill
2.7 Related research
2.1 Meaning of listening
There have been substantial studies about the meaning of listening which are the essential theories for teaching listening in foreign languages. Listening is a process which uses human body’s performance, brain and mind to listen the audio and connect with the listeners’ experience or their background knowledge then interpret sound and memorize what is useful or what they like (Tida Mosigarat 1983)
Additionally, it is not only hearing, but the meaning refers to a hearing with knowledge and understanding to the meaning of voice and meets the points of the utterance which the speaker wants to communicate (WijitraSangponlasit1979: 1; ChatraBoonnak1986: 260; SanitTangtawee1986: 3).
That, after people receive sounds from the environment, they try to get the meaning out of the sounds they hear. In a similar token, listening is described as a complex process of what people use to
understand speech. Listening is a usage of a sense of hearing through humans 'ears. The stories that humans listen may be or might be not understandable. When the listeners well consider and follow those story meanings, a listening process is accomplished (NoppadonChanpen1992: 36).
Byrnes (1984: 317) defined listening as a complex skill in which people have to employ all types of knowledge to interpret the meaning. She explained that listening is more than the perception of sounds. Rather, it includes comprehension of words, phases, clauses, sentences, and connected discourse.