The audio stories and listening skill

Abstract

Listening is considered as one of the main skills but obtaining a full development of listening skills is difficult for students. The following study aimed to determine the effect of the application of the audio stories methodology in the listening skill of students from 3rd BGU of Juan León Mera “La Salle” High School. The type of research was quasi-experimental design, the study had a qualitative and quantitative approach. This research was applied to thirty-five participants to whom a listening pre-test and post-test were given, using PET test of Cambridge, and a survey was applied. The class was divided into two groups control and experimental group with fourteen and fifteen students in each group. The experimental group had five interventions during a whole week, where teacher applied the audio stories to develop listening activities. Finally, the results of the control and experimental groups were analyzed and obtained through a standardized test, that was applied before and after the methodology, according with results from the experimental group showed a development in listening skills, the students’ results were from 5 to 8.9 over 10. In addition, the outcome obtained from the listening tests were analyzed using the statistical test T-test which concluded that p. is less than the significance level α=0.05, and the alternative hypothesis was accepted. Moreover, it was necessary to apply a survey to the students to establish the necessary conclusions for the investigation.