245 ©2019 The authors and IJLTER.ORG. All rights reserved. International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research Vol. 18, No. 11, pp. 245-264, November 2019 https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.18.11.15 Listening Comprehension Proficiency Development of Information Technology Students in ESP classroom Maryna Rebenko and Oksana Nikolenko Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Kyiv, Ukraine Victor Rebenko National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine Abstract. The article describes the 2013–2019 study, conducted at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine), and involved 221 undergraduate students of Computer Science and Cybernetics Faculty. The research aimed at developing students’ motivation to self - improvement of foreign language (FL) proficiency as a whole and listening comprehension competence in particular. We made a primary focus on listening comprehension improvement in the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classroom since the students had performed poorer in listening than in the other ESP final exam activities. A new methodology for listening comprehension skills development through computer-assisted training activities related to the participants’ professional environment (technological) was proposed. The experiment, which encompassed a three-stage metacognitive strategy training based on TED Talks online conference resource, was carried out. New was the idea that the students multitasked at all experiment stages – Listening Comprehension Input, Live Listening Comprehension, Listening Comprehension Output – that is, combined a “live listening” activity with reading, writing and speaking practice. Statistical analysis of the 2013-2019 ESP exam results based on the descriptive method, single-factor ANOVA and effect size measurement quantitatively proved the efficacy of the implemented methodology. The worked-out methodology might be used an alternative to traditional teaching techniques due to approach fruitfulness. Keywords: English for Specific Purposes; undergraduate students; final exam; listening comprehension development; computer-assisted methodology.