Effective strategies for teaching listening skills include providing pre-listening activities, using authentic materials, focusing on comprehension strategies, offering varied listening tasks, and promoting active engagement with listening materials. Providing pre-listening activities, such as predicting, previewing, or activating background knowledge, helps students prepare for listening tasks and activate relevant schemata. Using authentic materials, such as podcasts, news broadcasts, or videos, exposes students to natural language usage and diverse accents and dialects. Focusing on comprehension strategies, such as identifying main ideas, making inferences, or predicting content, helps students develop listening comprehension skills and become more strategic listeners. Offering varied listening tasks, such as listening for gist, specific information, or detailed comprehension, caters to different learning needs and preferences. Promoting active engagement with listening materials, such as taking notes, summarizing, or discussing content, encourages students to interact with the material and deepen their understanding.