are very easy for the L2 learners, they can’t make progress in listening practice. On the contrary, if the listening materials are more difficult for the L2 learners, the learners’ STM will be overloaded and the learners will lose interest in listening acquisition. Comprehensible input is very important in the language acquisition process. It seemed to us that the building of listening comprehension through meaningful listening exercises must be as carefully researched, tried, and tested as the building of speaking ability had been attempted in the audio-lingual methodology. Most, if not all, of the foreign language material learned by the student is the type that needs to be habituated rather than conceptualized. Therefore, in the production-oriented approach, which is characteristic of the contemporary methodology of instruction, the student’s short-term memory is constantly overloaded with FL (foreign language) material which he or she holds for active and instantaneous recall. Since the rate of presentation of new material is always greater than the rate of assimilation (that is, development of habitual control and automaticity of response), the short-term memory early in the course reaches a point of saturation, thereby causing considerable inhibition of the learning process. If we remove the requirement for premature speech production, the function of short-term memory will be greatly facilitated, for it will be left relatively free for new perceptual learning. Once listening comprehension is achieved, transfer to the speaking skill is very rapid.