It has been observed that one of the most difficult skills to develop in a learning process is the listening comprehension. That is why, for the majority of learners this issue involves different kind of feelings like frustration, panic or boredom. According to Underwood (1989, 4) by ‘learning to listen’ we mean that “we want our students to attend to what they hear, to process it, to understand it, to interpret it, to evaluate it, and to respond to it. We want them to become active listeners”.
However, for many students, to obtain what was mentioned above is not an easy job. According to Brown (1993) there are some factors which make listening difficult: Clustering, Redundancy, Reduced forms, Performance Variables, Colloquial language, Rate of delivery, Stress, rhythm, intonation, and Interaction. But, if students take into account these aspects and they are awared of them, it will help us, as teacher, to challenge them appropriately and to assign weights to items.
