Speech application to improve the listening comprehension skill in the students of second bgu at Unidad Educativa San Marcos, Santa Elena, Province of Santa Elena school year 2015-2016.

Abstract

This research focused on the application of multimedia resources to improve the students` listening skills; since English language is the second most spoken language around the world. Among its basic skills the listening skill is considered the first skill to be learned in the chronological order. Therefore, the problem is that the students cannot develop their listening skills as a consequence of the absence of audio resources, teachers who are not really prepared for teaching, who do not know how to teach and deal with students, lack of technological resources and uncomfortable classrooms. Once the problem was identified, the next step was to find similar problems to have an idea how to solve them. The purpose of the project is to find a way how to develop the listening skills by taking advantage of the multimedia resources. This difficult problem was solved first by collecting the information related to it. The instruments were questionnaires for students, interviews for the teachers, authorities and specialist teachers. The qualitative and qualitative method were used to process the information and once processed the data it was shown that the speech application selected improved the students ‘listening skill, consequently it is recommendable to use speech application to improve not only the listening skill but also the other basic skills of a language.