Methodological alternatives to improve the listening comprehension skills in 11th grade students from Guillermo Cano Institute, during the second semester 2014

As we know listening is one of the most important skills, you need in order to learn a foreign language, in this case English. To develop these skills, it is necessary for teachers to apply appropriate methodological strategies during the learning process. Also there are other factors which are involved for example: the appropriate environment, the sufficient audio resources, the students ‘motivation and finally the appropriate material. The largest potential barrier is that the lack of audio resources in the classroom does not allow the teacher to develop dynamic listening activities with students. Without dynamic activities students mentally leave the class even whilst they are still in it, because they lose\ud concentration and are not engaged in the learning process. When students are listening to conversations in English, but do not understand the meaning, they lose the motivation to involve themselves in the English class, for this reason they do not participate in listening activities, this results in them never developing this skill, and they leave high school without it. To resolve this we need to apply methodological alternatives in order to increase the student´s motivation and participation in listening activities and thus improve their listening comprehension skills