Listening comprehension is anything but a passive activity. It is a complex, active process in which the listener must discriminate between sounds, understand vocabulary and grammatical structures, interpret stress and intonation, retain
what was gathered in all of the above, and interpret it within the immediate as well as the larger sociocultural context
of the utterance. Co-ordinating all of this involves a great deal of mental activity on the part of the listener. Listening is
hard work, and deserves more analysis and support.