7. 1 Materials & Method
First of all we applied a five entry questionnaire based on Wilson, to know
the main problems students face while listening. We selected and applied different
materials from books and the internet to help them overcome their weakness and
have stronger listening skills. Our main sources were the CD English for business
and the site es-lab.com. The main purpose of our activities was to make students
aware of the importance of using strategies to deal with common problems when
listening, and provide them with strategies which might help them to effectively
understand English.
The participants were 10 Mexican students, 6 females and 4 males, most of
them from Commercial systems 8, and 2 from English language major; all of them
enrolled in the English for business course with the same objective in common
passing the course.