... improving listening skills of gifted students of Foreign Language Specializing School, College of Foreign Languages, Hanoi National University.”2. AIMS OF THE STUDY The purpose of this study is to ... rushed. The techniques of offering support or instruction before listening are varied and depend on a number of factors: time, material, the ability of the class, the interest of the class, the ... These units of meaning are the propositions which an utterance or speech expresses. Listeners make use of two kinds of knowledge to identify propositions: knowledge of the syntax of the target...