Impact of Teaching IPA Symbols on English Language Learners The rising popularity of English as a global language makes it necessary for the English teachers and institutes to strive for the development of their learners' communicative competence in this language. Thus, they are using every possible tactic for making them gain more language proficiency with confidence. Considering the verity about the worldwide strength of English, some private institutes in Pakistan are paving their way to standardize the communicative skills of the English language learners. So, they include IPA Symbols in their curriculum at the elementary level with the intention of providing a standard communicative environment to their learners as early as possible. The present study is a causal comparative research conducted to explore the impact of teaching IPA Symbols on English language learners. It was held between two privately run famous institutes of a metropolitan area of Pakistan. Two questionnaires / achievement tests and an opinionnaire were administered as its research tools. It brought forth that learning IPA Symbols not only improves the listening comprehension of the learners but also enhances their spelling command. Furthermore, learning IPA Symbols requires more practice on the part of the students and proper planning on the part of the teachers. The data from the opinionnaire revealed that majority of the learners enjoyed learning English language with the IPA Symbols. The researcher foresees that the present study will be useful for identifying the basic requirements for teaching / learning English language skills through IPA Symbols. Hence, it will earn credit from the educationists, policy makers, English teachers, linguists, curriculum designers and the researchers above all regarding IPA Symbols and English language learners.