Dual mode exposure enhances Rafael Sotomayor School 8th. grade students' listening comprehension in a final mono-modal test

Abstract

In the educational Chilean context, particularly in students who study English as a foreign language, it may be identified that one of the receptive skills that takes a long time to develop is Listening, because of the lack of authentic material exposure, such as audios, videos and dialogues, among others, to their students during the English classes. To demonstrate the efficiency of dual-modal exposure, in this research an 8th grade class of Rafael Sotomayor School in Las Condes was randomly chosen, students were exposed along a four-session of authentic material mono-modal and dual-modal classes, with the purpose of finding out what kind of methodology works better and develop the skill mentioned before. Finally, the results in this intervention show an unexpected setting according to the objectives propose in this study.