The present study was conducted to improve language learners' listening comprehension skill in English. Two experiments of the present study examined (1) whether a pause could improve the listening comprehension level of Japanese learners and (2) whether learners' sound discrimination ability for a single word could affect their listening comprehension level for a sentence. After all, it was found that (1) learners' sound discrimination ability directly affected their listening comprehension level for a sentence, and (2) pause-inserted training method could affect the level of listening comprehension only for training sessions.