Abstract
The purpose of this research was to develop the English Language Listening
Comprehension skills for the English Major's freshmen at the Faculty of Education.
The target Listening Comprehension Skills were: a) Basic Level Listening
Comprehension Skills: (Guessing the meaning of unfamiliar words within the
context of oral stories and song's spoken lyrics as well as Listening for gist in formal
and informal conversations), b) High Level Listening Comprehension Skills:
(Listening for implicit and explicit details in lectures as well as Listening for
specifics from the weather reports and news reports). The participants were a group
of 30 1st year Majors of English at Ismailia Faculty of Education in Suez Canal
University (SCU). The research design was one group pre- and post-test quasiexperimental
design. The measurement tool was a Listening Comprehension test
developed by the researcher. The findings revealed that the proposed Task-Based
Personal Learning Environment (TBPLE) module had a significant positive effect
on developing the target Listening Comprehension skills of the English major's
freshmen.