Encourage the development of listening strategies

Most of foreign language students are simply not aware of how to listen. One of your jobs is to equip them with strategies that extend well beyond the classroom. Draw their attention to the value of such strategies are 

• looking for keywords
• looking for nonverbal cues to meaning
• predicting a speaker's purpose by the context of the spoken discourse
• associating information with one's existing cognitive structure (activating schemata)
• guessing at meaning
• seeking for the general gist
• for tests of listening comprehension, various test-taking strategies