Listen english daily practice app and the listening comprehension

Abstract

Listen English Daily Practice App is an application that was used to improve listening comprehension. The objective of this research was to analyze the influence of the Listen English Daily Practice App to improve listening comprehension in students. The research was carried out through a quasi-experimental design with a population of 32 students of 10th “B” from Oscar Efren Reyes high school in Baños city. This research has a duration of 5 weeks from November 30th , 2021, to January 7th, 2022, and the data collection was carried out through the application of a pretest and a post-test of the Cambridge standardized test with the name A2 Key for Schools from the listening section. Furthermore, the average obtained in the pre-test was 6,4 points, which indicated that listening comprehension was low and it could be improved, then the experiment was applied to the students with the use of the Listen English Daily Practice App for the improvement and strengthening of listening comprehension, in the post-test obtained an average of 8,6 points where it showed that there was an increase of 2,2 points in the use of the Listen English Daily Practice. On the other hand, a document was used in Google Drive in which the students put the screenshots of the test section of the app every day as evidence of use. Therefore, it was concluded that the use of the Listen English Daily Practice App allowed to improve the listening comprehension of the students involved in the research in a better way.