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Can Listening Be Taught? Yes. A lot of listening ability comes with practice and exercise, but there are a number of points which, if you explain them to your class, will help them understand how to listen and what to listen out for and why an error might be made.
There is no one-stop solution however in the classroom there are a number of strategies a teacher can use to help students listen well.

• Once we have an idea about the problems a learner faces, we can better find solutions and effective methods of teaching. Thus it is important to explain to your class how the written sentence can differ from the spoken sentence because of the reasons above. When students know that in certain situations articles‏‎, for example, are almost not spoken then they learn to "hear" this in an utterance.
• Many students are bound to the written word. When doing a listening exercise, have all books closed so students only listen rather than try to match the sounds to words on the page.
• Encourage the use of the IPA to help explain precisely how a word is spoken.
• Introduce accents into the class. Keep this simple but have students listen to a "neutral" text and then the same in an accent. Then have them point out and analyse the differences in pronunciation.