Listening Skill: Processes, Strategies and Perspectives

Abstract

As English teachers, we have been concerned about the difficulty our students face when they come across real situations of oral communication in which they need to understand and make themselves understood. We know that to communicate orally it is necessary to know how to listen. However, it is noticed that the strategies that have been used in the classroom for this purpose have not contributed to the effectiveness in the student's listening comprehension. Although there are few studies on the subject, such as Vandergrift (2016) and Rost (2002), we will address aspects that facilitate and make it difficult the listening skill in English interaction practices. In addition, we present an example of a situation in which it is evaluated the listening comprehension of our students. The result gives us clues on how we can facilitate students' development of this skill besides elucidating why they make some mistakes in the listening process.