2.1.2 Significance of Listening
Before people learn the language and communicate with others, listening is the
first skill for communication (Bancha Ung-sakul 2002 : 2). This means, after birth of
children, they must listen before they acquire any knowledge and summarize as a rule of
language then use this language correctly and properly. Therefore, in the four skills
listening, speaking, reading and writing, listening is a skill that people use most. There are
several educators mention the significance of listening which can be divided into three
concepts as follow.