EVALUATION OF LISTENING SKILLS IN PRACTICAL ENGLISH HANDBOOK1

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Abstract : This article evaluates activities or tasks likely to develop listening skills by first years undergraduate students in all the fields of studies ( objective assigned by the designer ) in the Democratic Republic of Congo in “Practical English Handbook1”. This material was certified and recommended by Higher Education Minister for the enhancement of English as a second official language of Higher Education in DRC since 2011. The author used a documentary study and has not almost found activities or tasks likely to help learners develop listening. That is why, he suggests the revision or adaptation of this material by incorporating activities like dictation, summarizing, reproducing, listening for some objectives, etc. Keywords: Listening, course book, activities, traditional, communicative.