Resumen en inglés

Listening is a fundamental skill that allows us to comprehend what happens around us. According to Cheung (2010), listening is the principal skill we should improve when learning a foreign language, as it is the foundation to acquire other skills. Strengthening comprehension will mean an increase in other skills and the overall learning process. In the context of education, different methodologies can be used to improve listening comprehension; one of them can be the genre-based approach (Henceforth, GBA), an approach that focuses on helping students understand and identify the different components, structures, and features of a text (or genre) to produce it correctly. According to Castrillon (2018), the approach gives students meaningful experiences in the learning process. In addition, as Derewianka and Jones (2016) suggest, awareness of genre can allow students to recognize how certain texts are structured to cover certain social purposes and how culture can shape them. As genre structures are created with a social purpose, the idea of students understanding this structure can greatly benefit them. This action research investigated how using audio-video of short narratives such as fables and moral tales may enhance students' English listening skills using genre-based lessons. This study was conducted with 30 eleventh-grade students from the INEM "Lorenzo María de Lleras" school. The research employed pre-task and final tasks, comprehension tasks during the lessons, a semi-structured interview, and class observations to collect data. The findings suggest that the genre-based approach successfully enhances students' listening comprehension within the target genre, allowing students to identify different aspects such as, in the case of fables, themes, schematics structure, identification of the morals and reflection, participants, and social purpose. Furthermore, the genre-based approach combined with audio-video fables fosters students' engagement during the lessons.