Abstract:
The present research is focused on the teaching of listening through recreational strategies to strengthen the ability of listening in the second grade of the basic education center Teodoro Wolf in the canton Santa Elena. The research process starts from the problem that is how to strengthen the listening in the students of the second basic grade education; and it was proposed as a general objective: Apply a proposal of recreational strategies aimed at improving listening in the selected students. To analyze the objective and answer the research question will be developed actions such as: Results of research on the subject, diagnosis on the level of listening of the students when initiating the investigation process, consultation of the conceptual and methodological references that help in the process of teaching the listening on campus, rationale, design and planning of the proposal of recreational strategies to strengthen the listener, application of the proposal and evaluation of the proposal to establish the impact of the research, the diagnosis process is developed by observing the respective observation sheet. The results showed the aspects with greater difficulty with receptive listening and expressive listening. Based on these results, the proposal was designed and applied: recreational strategies to strengthen listening skills. It is structured into a number of activities in each of the listening phases. Finally the proposal was applied in students of second basic grade that allowed to establish the level of impact in them.