Abstract
Listening permeates everything students do in the classroom and is the most used literacy skill in school, no matter the grade level (elementary, middle, high school, and college). Researchers have investigated listening pedagogy for almost 100 years and have all reported that when listening habits are addressed in the classroom they can improve students' performance, and yet listening is still not taught in the same way that reading, writing, or even speaking are addressed in a classroom. There are some challenges to why it hasn't been given its due and is often referred to as the “Cinderella Skill.” It is essential to acknowledge that assessing listening will always involve some level of complexity due to its intrinsic nature as a mental process.