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    Facebook as a complementary strategy to develop listening skills in English for A2 learners
    (Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador, 2024-08-29) Real Roby, Roddy Andres; López López, Jacqueline Elizabeth
    Currently, with the growth of the technological age and its scope, it becomes essential to apply new strategies to keep the student motivated in learning the English language. By implementing traditional teaching strategies and not complementing them with new trends, it becomes difficult to reach the student effectively (Concannon et al., 2005). Therefore, this thesis proposes to use a modern strategy that focuses on one of the applications most used by students, such as the social network Facebook, as a complementary strategy to strengthen the development of listening skills in the English language. For the effective implementation of this research project, it is necessary to combine different methodologies. Two different research methods are used in the data collection process: quantitative and qualitative. After the pretest a proposal implementation was applied that lasted 4 weeks and the results after the post test revealed that, the minimum grade of the pretest was 1,1 showing a real difficulty in the comprehension of spoken English, however, the minimum grade of the posttest was 4 and shows an improvement in the listening skills. In addition, the mean of the pretest was 3,41 and the post test was 6,46 showing an improvement that indicates that the intervention of Facebook has achieved educational meaningful gains over the four weeks course implementation. The research concluded that the use of Facebook in listening activities helped students achieve a better comprehension of the spoken English, improved their listening skills and increased the quality of their productions.