At present, inadequate attention is given to the listening skills in most second-language classes. Students should be exposed to situations similar to those they would encounter in the real language setting. To improve this situation, the teacher should be aware of the importance of listening comprehension, its relation to the other language skills, and the sequencing necessary in the development of listening. The next step is to begin to collect materials for practice in listening comprehension. The school's stock of both graded and nongraded materials for listening should be at least equal to what is available for reading. Both records and tapes should be acquired. In addition to purchasing professionally prepared materials, the teachers can, and should, begin to make and save tapes of visiting speakers, dramatizations, readings, descriptions of cultural topics, guessing games, anecdotes, radio and shortwave broadcasts, etc., to use with their classes. Too, teachers can give their students a tremendous assist in developing their listening comprehension skills simply by conducting their classes in such a way that wha te vert hey want their students to know (that they have the knowledge to understand) they give to them in the second language. Listening comprehension ability must be stressed.