Abstract

CARCAMO MORALES, Benjamín. Types of listening comprehension promoted in the Chilean EFL textbook Global English. Colomb. Appl. Linguist. J. [online]. 2018, vol.20, n.1, pp.49-61. ISSN 0123-4641.  https://doi.org/10.14483/22487085.12313.

This article reports the results and reflections of an analysis of the EFL textbook provided by the Ministry of Education of Chile to all 11th graders in public and subsidized schools. The objective of this article is to identify the type(s) of comprehension developed in the listening comprehension section. In order to achieve this, a descriptive quantitative study was carried out which consisted of the design and application of a checklist developed based on Day and Park’s (2005) taxonomy. Four different experts analyzed the textbook reaching 92.3% of agreement. The results show that the there is no clear progress across the units and that the vast majority of the tasks aim at comprehension at the surface level. This indicates a superficial treatment of listening in the textbook, which reduces the opportunities to develop it in depth.

Keywords : comprehension taxonomy; listening comprehension; textbook analysis..

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