This paper suggests that the English teachers in engineering colleges should periodically test their own listening skills in English. The paper focuses on self-assessment and self-learning of their listening skills in English, by the teachers as well as the students. This call for self-assessment of our own listening skills in English may be applied both to English as well as other subject teachers, since both the categories employ English to teach their subjects. Our position is that when

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... ers have great listening skills, they will be able to impart quality instruction and also quality listening skills to their students. It is important that the non-English subject teachers also take some interest in improving their own as well as their students' English language skills.