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MORALES CHACON, Odalys de las Mercedes. Listening comprehension in the English Language Course A2. RP [online]. 2020, vol.8, n.2, pp. 347-362.  Epub 21-Dic-2021. ISSN 2308-3042.

Listening comprehension is considered the most important and the most demanding among all language skills; however not enough attention is paid to its importance in the English language teaching. In addition, the listening comprehension practice provided in class does not help students develop effective English listening comprehension. As a result, many students have low English listening comprehension level or fail to reach level A2 in listening comprehension, which make evident the need to improve the teaching of the English language listening comprehension. The aim of this paper is to explain the listening comprehension as well as its significance in the English language teaching and learning in order to develop the students’ listening comprehension in the English language course A2. The study of the specialized literature along with the analysis of the listening comprehension in the English language course A2 allowed to identify deficiencies in the teaching of the listening comprehension and demonstrated the importance and pertinence of the adequate design of listening comprehension tasks as well as the use of suitable materials to help students achieve level A2 English listening comprehension.

Palabras clave : listening comprehension; importance; teaching learning process; the English language; level A2.

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