Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research 13 (Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities): 16-21, 2013 ISSN 1990-9233 © IDOSI Publications, 2013 DOI: 10.5829/idosi.mejsr.2013.13.sesh.1404 Corresponding Author: Dr. Sura, ul. Tukhachevskogo 3b-8, Lugansk 91051, Ukraine 16 ESP Listening Comprehension for IT-Students as a Language Skill Nataliya Anatol’evna Sura Institute of Higher Education of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine Abstract: A problem of ESP Listening Comprehension for IT-students as a Language Skill is reviewed in this article. Here are proposed some techniques to develop effective ESP listening comprehension skills for IT-students. The format of this technology (Pre-listening Stage with recommended pre-listening activities included; While-Listening Stage with its activities and specific cares; After-listening Stage and recommended after-listening activities); categories of spoken texts (static, dynamic and abstract) have been considered in the given abstract in details. Key words: Stage Listening comprehension skills IT-students Activities Texts Teacher INTRODUCTION Tomatis’ (1983) view is, while listening; the desire to Language came into life as a means of must be present with the listener for the successful communication. It exists and is alive only through the recognition and analysis of the sound [3]. speech. When we speak about teaching a foreign This correlation is like that between seeing and language, we first of all have in mind teaching it as a reading. Seeing is a very ordinary and passive state while means of communication. reading is a focused process requiring reader’s Speech is a bilateral process. It includes hearing, on instrumental approach. Listening has a “volitional the one hand and speaking, on the other. When we say component” (Tomatis’ definition) [3]. “hearing” we mean auding or listening comprehension. What “listening” really means is listening and What is listening? Listening is the ability to identify understanding what we hear at the same time. So, two and understand what others are saying. This involves concurrent actions are demanded to take place in this understanding a speaker's accent or pronunciation, process. Besides, according to Mecheal Rost [4], grammar and vocabulary and grasping his meaning [1]. listening comprises some component skills which are: An able listener is capable of doing these four things discriminating between sounds, recognizing words, simultaneously. J. Willis [2] lists a series of micro-skills identifying grammatical groupings of words, identifying of listening, which she calls enabling skills. They are: expressions and sets of utterances that act to create predicting what people are going to talk about, meaning, connecting linguistic cues to non-linguistic and guessing at unknown words or phrases without paralinguistic cues, using background knowledge to panicking, using one's own knowledge of the subject predict and later to confirm meaning and recalling to help one understand, identifying relevant points, important words and ideas. rejecting irrelevant information, retaining relevant points As McDonough and Shaw [5] explain that a listener (note-taking, summarizing), recognizing discourse as a processor of language has to go through three markers, recognizing cohesive devices, understanding processes using three types of skills: different intonation patterns and uses of stress, which give clues to meaning and social setting, understanding Processing sound/Perception skills (As the complete inferred information [2]. perception doesn’t emerge from only the source of Listening is a skill in a sense that it’s a related but sound, listeners segment the stream of sound and distinct process than hearing which involves merely detect word boundaries, contracted forms, perceiving sound in a passive way while listening vocabulary, sentence and clause boundaries, stress occupies an active and immediate analysis of the streams on longer words and effect on the rest of the words, of sounds [3]. the significance of intonation and other language- listen, as well as the capability to listen (comprehension)