A Problem-Based Learning Model for Hindi Listening Instruction: A Focus on A2–B1 Learners

This study proposes a problem-based learning (PBL) model for teaching Hindi listening to second-year university learners at the A2–B1 level. Hindi listening classes have long drawn on a range of audio, including films, dramas, news, dialogues, textbook recordings, and machine-translation audio, but the work has usually stopped at checking content or parsing vocabulary and sentence patterns. This study ties listening to authentic problem-solving so that learners experience it not as a plain comprehension drill but as a process of searching for information, negotiating meaning, carrying out a task, and producing an output. To that end it applies the core principles of PBL, namely authentic problems, ill-structured tasks, small-group collaboration, self-directed learning, and the teacher as facilitator, to a Hindi listening class, and it offers problem scenarios and project tasks suited to A2–B1 learners. The study does not test the model in class, but it is useful in setting out a concrete design framework and a direction for developing problems so that PBL can be used in Hindi listening instruction.