Promoting process-oriented methodology to teaching listening comprehension in Algerian EFL classes

الملخص EN

Listening comprehension has always been a real challenge for many EFL learners who struggle to understand the native speakers’ spoken discourse.

The aim of this research paper is to consider and discuss in details aspects of the process-based approach to teaching listening skills.

Actually, research related to teaching listening comprehension, in recent years, has shifted the focus to a more process-oriented methodology (Field, 2008).

This latter suggests an approach that gives learners intensive practice on small-scale exercises that contribute to improve the practice of various listening sub-skills.

This approach recommends guiding learners through the listening process toward improved comprehension by providing instruction to help them in individual word identification, and recognition of features of connected speech.

Accordingly, some useful implications have been drawn in order to provide teachers and material designers with some guidelines for implementing this approach in listening instructions.