Enhancing Listening Skills in Pakistani ESL Classrooms: Effective Strategies and Practices

Abstract

The study aims to investigate the teaching strategies used by ESL teachers to improve their listening skills among the different secondary schools in Pakistan. The study followed a qualitative research design and it investigated the teaching strategies used by the ESL teachers to improve the listening skills of secondary school students in Pakistan. It involved a series of semi-structured interviews as the main method of data collection. This study yields, ever so important, information about the teaching methods employed by teachers. The key themes that emerged from semi-structured interviews of 15 experienced ESL are interactive teaching methods, technology, real-life exposure, and addressing linguistic challenges. The results are consistent with the previously discussed literature review which shows that the proposed strategies contribute to developing listening comprehension. The implications of this study are helpful to further improve ESL education for similar such context along educators and policy makers.