A Scientific Approach to Improve Listening Skills for ESL Learners

Listening is an important skill to attain proficiency in the target language, which is also closely interlinked to speaking skills.  As listening plays a vital role in learning, it should be followed and monitored thoroughly to excel in this skill.  This paper attempts to highlight the significance of the scientific approach in inculcating listening skills through activities.  The objectives of this study are 1) to identify the effectiveness of the implementation of the scientific approach to enhance the listening skills of the students, 2) to analyze the students’ ability to adapt the new scientific learning styles to develop their listening skills, and 3) to observe the changes in learning and the enrichment in their listening ability.  For this research work, a pre-experimental research methodology was adopted and the research was carried out for the first-year engineering students in India.  This scientific approach was profoundly scrutinized and analyzed to find out the outcomes of the research.  This paper has given evidence and recommended implementing a scientific approach in the learning process of the target language.