Factors that influence the development of listening comprehension of the students in the advanced intensive English I course, in both majors: Bachelor of Arts in English, emphasis in Teaching and Bachelor of Modern Languages Specialty in French and English, semester ll-2016, at the Foreign Language Department of the University de El Salvador
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2017-11-28
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Nowadays listening is well recognized as a critical dimension in language learning, it still remains one of the least understood processes, during the 1980s special attention was focused to listening because it was incorporated into new instructional frameworks, that is, functional language and communicative approaches. Throughout the time, attention to listening in language instruction has increased dramatically. Now listening comprehension is generally acknowledged as an important facet of language learning. Listening comprehension is a complicated decoding process, which involves a number of basic processes, some of them depending on linguistic competence, some depending upon previous knowledge, and some depending upon psychological variables that affect the mobilization of these competences and knowledge in the particular task situation. From the point of view of listeners’ linguistic competence, listening is a complex process in which listeners interact with a speaker to construct meaning, within the context of their experiences and knowledge. This involves the use of certain strategies in order to understand a speaker´s accent or pronunciation, his/her grammar and vocabulary, and understanding his/her meaning. As well as to decode an exactly and accurately message input, the listeners must have storage of certain amount of codes such as correct pronunciation, exact meaning and correct usages of certain amount of vocabulary, all of these are examples of cognitive, metacognitive, and socio-affective strategies.
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Enseñanza del idioma inglés