Listen and drawing strategy and the listening skill

Abstract

Listening is the ability to analyze and comprehend what other people say, but due to many students find listening to be one of the most difficult skills to develop, it requires the support of effective strategies such as the listen and drawing strategy which is considered a great activity to apply in listening classes. Taking into account the reason above this research was raised, with the objective of determining the effectiveness of the listen and drawing strategy in the students´ development of the listening skill. The experimental group were 28 children of the seventh-year "B" of Basic Education from "Unidad Educativa Luis A. Martinez". To achieve the objectives set up in this investigation, it was used quantitative research and pre-experimental design. The investigation consisted of the application of a pre-test, treatment (the use of the listen and drawing strategy), and post-test in order to figure out if the strategy helps students to improve their listening skill or not. The post-test results showed that most of the learners got very good grades, they improved their listening performance from 39% to 86%. Eventually, the Wilcoxon rank test was utilized to verify the hypothesis, the alternative hypothesis was accepted which means that listen and drawing strategy is effective in students´ development of the listening skill