Development of Communication Skills through Active Listening in Teaching Romanian Language as a Second Language

Abstract

This article discusses the development of communication competence through active listening – an indisputable condition in the process of assimilation of a non-native language. Linguistics, psychology, and pedagogy offer theories and strategies for defining communication skills but the problem of developing listening comprehension and the skills’ interdependence is insufficiently researched. The author reveals that the identified issue can be solved with the help of an exercise system oriented towards receiving, decoding, and developing the voice message, towards communicative interaction, in order to train an active listener, as well as developing communication skills and successful social integration, at a time when the International Listening Association in the USA has appreciated listening as the competence of the 21st century.