Description:
he Listening Comprehension Skills is the most important ability at the moment
of developing the other skills: Reading, Writing and Speaking. The following
research had as a main objective to improve the Listening Comprehension Skills
in English as a foreign language; in students of Ninth Grade at EGB “Antonio
José de Sucre”, an educational institution located in Pechiche, Chanduy – Santa
Elena. This research was developed qualitatively and quantitatively. In order to
accomplish this goal, the researcher did a meticulous investigation about whether
or not the English teachers applied a good teaching-learning tool which supports
the development of Listening Comprehension Skills in the teaching-learning
process. For that reason the researcher applied interviews and surveys as research
tools. The researcher deducted that most of the English Teachers did not apply
resources for the Listening Skills’ improvement. The researcher , with the results
obtained by the research tool applied in it, decided to design an Audiobook named
Santa Elena Folktales as a proposal. The Audiobook was applied as a teachinglearning
tool
to
the
sample
taken
by
the
researcher.
The
proposal
implementation
process
had
two
weeks
of
execution
in
which
twelve
sessions
were
applied.
All
of
them
evaluated the Level of Listening Comprehension Skills in students. The
result was analyzed according to scores obtained from the quizzes applied per
each session. When the implementation process was completed the researcher
concluded that the proposal “Santa Elena Folktales” had supported the
improvement of the Listening Comprehension skills in students of Ninth Grades,
students’ level skills had increased a thirty percent over the previous students’
level.