Types of listening comprehension developed in the Chilean EFL textbook Global English

Abstract

This article reports the results and reflections of an analysis of the EFL textbook provided by the Ministry of Education of Chile to all 11 th graders in public and subsidized schools .  The objective of this article is to identify the type(s) of comprehension developed in the listening comprehension section. The results show that the there is no clear progress across the units and that the vast majority of the tasks aim at comprehension at the surface level. This significantly reduces the opportunities to develop critical thinking and to foster the perception of listening as an active skill.