Abstract
One of the main areas of research in English language teaching is concerned with listening due to the learning difficulties that this strategy represents to a considerable percentage of learners. The purpose of this research is to know the main problems students face regarding listening and the strategies that might help in certain conditions or situations to improve their listening learning. The first part of the methodology was to devise a five-entry questionnaire in order to know the problems students face related to listening. Secondly, the listening strategies: bottom-up and top-down were adapted to be applied by means of an experiment conducted to a sample of English intermediate University students. Information gotten from the development and performance of the students in class was compiled and analyzed. Even though the experiment is still being carried out, we have our first findings to be
presented. We are open to comments from other colleagues from whom we might get ideas to implement new resources in our project.