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Phonetic transcription and audiobooks as tools to improve the listening comprehension skills in English Faya Ornia, María Goretti Spanish and English phonological systems vary considerably regarding the number of vowel sounds (12 in English, but only 5 in Spanish). This makes that Spanish-speaking students present many difficulties when interacting orally in English. For this reason, a Teaching Innovation Project approved by the University of Valladolid was carried out on the Soria Campus with the aim of improving students’ listening comprehension skills by providing them with basic phonetic notions and training in transcription, as well as doing some pre-arranged self-study practice. The results obtained were slightly higher in the final test in most cases, suggesting the positive impact of the intervention. 2025-01-22T23:00:08Z 2025-01-22T23:00:08Z 2025-01-22T23:00:08Z 2019 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change, 2019, vol. 5, n. 1, p. 33-49. 2201-1323 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/74286 33 5 49 International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change 1 eng https://www.ijicc.net/images/Vol_5_iss_1_2019/Goretti_Faya-Ornia_2019.pdf info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ © Autora Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional