The effect of communicative listening activities on developing learners’ communicative competence : case study first year students of english at Béjaia University

Abstract

This research work shows the effect of communicative listening activities on developing EFL learners’ communicative competence. It examines the role of appropriate communicative listening activities in improving communicative competence of a group of learners. A quasi-experimental design was adopted where quantitative and qualitative methods were used. The data were collected using pre and post listening tests and direct classroom observation. Therefore, findings showed that introducing communicative listening activities helps learners to improve their communicative competence. However, a number of factors seem to affect the success of the implementation of these communicative listening activities namely the topic of the lesson, the objective of the listening activities and the use of materials, etc. Thus, this study recommends that these factors should be taken into consideration when designing communicative listening activities in language laboratory