ABSTRACT
Within the teaching and learning process there are tour basic skills that are essential inside and outside the classroom. For this investigation the main objective is to provide teachers with a proposal of activities for improving listening skills in beginners students. These activities were designed incorporating the computer as a didactic tool, specifically using audioblogs to develop the suggested activities given. Learning is a process in which learners construct new ideas taking their previous knowledge as a reference to come with the new one. In relation to the type of investigation, it can be said that this research is a feasible one since the main idea or purpose is to propose a series of activities for improving listening skills by the use of the computer as a didactic tool applying on-line diaries (audioblogs). Due to the fact that this investigation is a proposal of suggested activities to be used by teachers when teaching a second language, some aspects are to be considered for them to be effective, like prepare the activities in advance taking into account students’ characteristics.
Minerva Ontivero
