For some lecturers learning foreign language mean the ability of speaking the target language. In some aspects
it is true but still argumentative. Student’s main factor of speaking ability is charging with listening as much as
possible. There a lot of definitions of listening. According to Chastain (1971) the aim of listening comprehension
is understand the native conversation at normal rate in a spontaneous condition. Listening comprehension is a
rational phenomenon listeners try to establish a meaning when they obtain the information from the listening
source (Goss, 1982). Steinberg (2007) mentioned listening process as “the ability of one individual perceiving
another via sense, aural organs, assigning a meaning to the message and comprehending it”. Nunan (1998)
states that, listening is the basic skill in language learning. Without listening skill, learners never learn to
communicate effectively. Students spend 50% of the time operational in a foreign language is dedicated to
listening.
Mendelsohn (1994) stated that listening has an important role in communication that is to say listening takes
up 40-50%; speaking, 25-30%; reading, 11-16%; and writing, about 9%. Listening takes part more of daily