This study holds a comparison between the product approach and the process approach to teaching EFL/ESL listening. To this end, it explores the two approaches from a theoretical and practical point of view. As such, this comparative study is multi-dimensional and therefore focuses on such aspects as the principles and premises underlying these two approaches along with how they translate into the teaching and learning practices with regard to EFL/ESL listening. In other words, the study looks at how these approaches manifest themselves as performance and behavior in terms of classroom activities, the role of the teacher and that of the student, and most importantly how their tenets affect the learning atmosphere prevailing in the ESL/EFL listening classroom while these approaches are being implemented by the target language listening teacher.

Keywords : Product Approach, Process Approach, EFL/ESL Listening.