The development of english listening comprehension in students majoring in computer science engineering.

Abstract

The present research responds to a significant quality of the university as a social institution: the comprehensive training of highly qualified future professionals, capable of communicating and exchanging in other languages and contexts, especially based on the new strategy for the development of English teaching at universities, which presupposes a linguistic-didactic challenge due to the necessity of its implementation to expand the horizons and achieve a deeper, as well as a meaningful preparation in the students. Reason why the research problem is aimed at contributing through the use of video as a teaching resource in the development of one of the four basic macro - skills that shows more difficulty in the current context at the University of Matanzas: listening comprehension, specifically in first-year students majoring in Computer Science Engineering who currently receive level A1 (starter) through the Face2Face series. The author also deals with some important aspects related to: the integration of skills, listening, listening comprehension, listening comprehension process, video and its use in the classroom .The systematization of the theory supported by the integrative application of the dialectical-materialistic philosophical method as well as the theoretical and empirical methods, allowed the elaboration of a system of didactic activities as a proposal, whose foundations reflect what is stated by the CEFR, the system approach and the principles that support the teaching of English in Cuba.