Paukert, Amber, Stagner, Brian and Hope, Kerry(2004). The Assessment of Active Listening Skills in Helpline Volunteers. This research attempted to determine if the active listening skills of helpline volunteers are improved through training and maintained after training and if the assessment tool currently used by helplines to objectively measure active listening skills, is a valid measure. The lack of significant correlations between CCDI scores. This indicates that active listening skills improve with training. Although scores on the CCDI did not change significantly.
Galina Kavaliauskiene and Lilija Anusiene(2009). English for Specific Purposses Podcasts for Listening Skills. The most needed ability in everyday communication is skills of listening. Ability to follow a speaker in a foreign language and respond appropriately needs to be taught like all other language skills. An innovative approach to teaching listening skills has emerged due to the hi-tech developments. One of them is a so-called “podcasting” (a portmanteau of the words iPod and broadcasting), which has recently become very popular. The term “podcast” was first coined in 2004. In this study we aimed at examining the challenges that students face in listening to various authentic English podcasts individually. The results and discussion is students’ self-evaluation data of online listening experience to podcasts are displayed in Table. The results are presented in percentage.