Resumen:
The main goal of the present paper is to give the teachers of Salamanca High School a methodological guide that can be used for improving listening comprehension skills with the utilization of cooperative learning techniques. This study was conducted in Quito, at Salamanca Evening High School. The subjects of this research were the students of second and third year of Bachillerato. It was necessary to separate the sample into two groups, one called the experimental group and other one, control group. These groups were randomly selected. In the experimental group was applied the methodology to improve listening comprehension proposed in this thesis and the other one kept learning listening comprehension in the traditional way the school uses.
