Listening is the skill of understanding spoken language, it is also the name given to classroom activities that are designed to develop this skills - what are also called listening comprehension activities - as in 'today we're going to do a listening'.
listening is one of the for language skills, and, along with reading , was once thought of as being a 'passive' skill. in fact, although receptive, listening is anything but passive. it is a goal-oriented activity, involving not only processing of the incoming speech signals but also the use of prior knowledge, contextual clues, and expectation in order to create meaning. Among the sub-skills of listening