How the listenning activities developed in english clases at the Foreing Languaje Department of The University of El Salvador ennable students from Intermédiate Intensive English I year 2014, to improve their speaking abilities

The listening activities developed in the classroom have the purpose of helping students to improve not only their listening skills but also their speaking and language subskills such as grammar, and fluency, among others, so that when they face real life situations in which they need to use these skills to communicate with people in the target language (in this case the research group will work with English), they can do it easily, naturally and with no problems. Unfortunately, not all listening activities are effective to help students to improve their language skills. Besides that, sometimes it is hard to know what activity would be appropriate for a group of students since listening activities should be chosen depending on the level students are. The problem lies on the decision making of which listening activities are the most appropriate to help students to improve their speaking proficiency in English. The results of the activities developed will be reflected in their performance and how confident they feel when speaking not only when they participate in the classroom but also in real life situations. It is hard to say what are the best listening activities that can be used with the students to improve their language skills since, as everybody knows, students have different ways of earning and not all the students have the same intelligence quotient, so, by facing these issues, how can one determine if the listening activities that are used in a specific course are the most effective ones? Of course, by asking students, since they are the ones who have perceived if there has been or not an improvement in this course and to do that the group will choose a specific course at the FLD.