A pre-course questionnaire shows that many of the students who enrolled in this elective class are eager to improve their overall English ability, especially listening and speaking, and some of them are planning to study abroad in the near future. Furthermore, according to the questionnaire, many of the students expressed their preference of learning listening to reading and writing, though they acknowledged listening is the skill most difficult to master. Listening is essential not only as a receptive skill but also to the development of spoken language proficiency (Rost cited in Nunan and Miller, 1995), and my own experience as.
