Listening and Reading

training. One reason for this concern is the growing awareness of the intimate interrelationship between listening and reading. Both are receptive communication skills and as such share many attributes. A recently published bibliography on this subject, which I compiled, includes about two hundred entries on this interrelationship (1). The items are concerned with: 1. the correlation between readingand listening-test results 2. the effects of teaching listening on reading skills and vice versa 3. the evaluation of listening skills as a measure of reading potential 4. listening skill as a factor of reading skill 5. the relative effectiveness of reading and listening as a means of learning Increasingly, experts on, and teachers of, reading are recognizing the importance of knowledge about teaching listening in effective reading instruction. A considerable amount of time and attention was devoted to the