Synopsis This basic skills of reading, writing, learning, reasoning, and general problem solving--including the more sophisticated aspects of reading and learning English--are less emphasized or neglected. It is my hope that my adoption of the style may gain more than it loses by giving a sense of doing a phenomenological investigation and by dealing with it in a lucid language which I have attempted to make thoroughly explicit. This book serves as sensible and practical overture about English language learning and listening skills from an Indian perspective. It has a training-oriented approach well suited to be used as a manual by teachers, trainers, students at the graduate and post-graduate levels as well as in B.Ed. and allied programmes.