Second Language Listening
Second Language Listening

Author: John Flowerdew

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-02-07

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780521786478

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As an essential part of communicative competence, listening is a skill which deserves equal treatment with the other basic skills of speaking, reading, and writing. Second Language Listening combines up-to-date listening theory with case studies of actual pedagogical practice. The authors describe current models of listening theory and exemplify each with a textbook task. They address the role of technology in teaching listening, questioning techniques, and testing. Second Language Listening is designed to be used with both pre-service and in-service teachers who are involved in the teaching of listening or the design of pedagogic materials for listening.

Teaching and Learning Second Language Listening
Teaching and Learning Second Language Listening

Author: Christine C. M. Goh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-04-23

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1136912371

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This reader-friendly text, firmly grounded in listening theories and supported by recent research findings, offers a comprehensive treatment of concepts and knowledge related to teaching second language (L2) listening, with a particular emphasis on metacognition. The metacognitive approach, aimed at developing learner listening in a holistic manner, is unique and groundbreaking. The book is focused on the language learner throughout; all theoretical perspectives, research insights, and pedagogical principles in the book are presented and discussed in relation to the learner. The pedagogical model─a combination of the tried-and-tested sequence of listening lessons and activities that show learners how to activate processes of skilled listeners ─ provides teachers with a sound framework for students’ L2 listening development to take place inside and outside the classroom. The text includes many practical ideas for listening tasks that have been used successfully in various language learning contexts.

Rethinking the Second Language Listening Test
Rethinking the Second Language Listening Test

Author: John Field

Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781781797150

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Testing second language listening proficiency validly and reliably has always posed a challenge. In the days before the widespread availability of recorded material, tests were reliant upon the voice of the examiner. Each test administration was a unique phonetic event, with enormous variations of delivery between examiners and even within the performance of a single examiner on different occasions. The presentation was read-aloud, and the texts chosen were often those that had been written to be read (including literary extracts). The resulting input to test takers bore little resemblance to natural connected speech.

Strategies for Second Language Listening
Strategies for Second Language Listening

Author: Suzanne Graham

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781137410511

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This book seeks to help teachers teach listening in a more principled way by presenting what is known from research, exploring teachers' beliefs and practices, examining textbook materials, and offering practical activities for improving second language listening.

Strategies for Second Language Listening
Strategies for Second Language Listening

Author: Suzanne Graham

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1137410523

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This book seeks to help teachers teach listening in a more principled way by presenting what is known from research, exploring teachers' beliefs and practices, examining textbook materials, and offering practical activities for improving second language listening.

Examining Listening
Examining Listening

Author: Ardeshir Geranpayeh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-03-27

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1107602637

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This volume examines the nature of second language listening proficiency and how it can be assessed. The book highlights the need for test developers to provide a clear explication of the ability constructs which underpin the tests they offer in the public domain. This is increasingly necessary if claims about the validity of test score interpretation and use are to be supported both logically and with empirical evidence. It operationalises a comprehensive test validation framework which adopts a socio-cognitive perspective. The framework embraces six core components, examining and then analysing Cambridge ESOL listening tasks from the following perspectives: Test Taker; Cognitive Validity; Context Validity; Scoring Validity; Criterion-related Validity; and Consequential Validity.

Listening Myths
Listening Myths

Author: Steven Brown

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2011-02-25

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0472034596

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This volume was conceived as a "best practices" resource for teachers of ESL listening courses. It was written to help ensure that teachers of listening are not perpetuating the myths of teaching listening.

A Guide for the Teaching of Second Language Listening
A Guide for the Teaching of Second Language Listening

Author: David J. Mendelsohn

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13:

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Reflects current thinking in second language listening. A blend of theory and practice and provides readers with an understanding of how people listen, the listening process itself and some tested recommendations for teaching listening comprehension.

Listening in the Language Classroom
Listening in the Language Classroom

Author: John Field

Publisher: Cambridge Language Teaching Library

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780521685702

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This book challenges the orthodox approach to the teaching of second language listening, which is based upon the asking and answering of comprehension questions. The book's central argument is that a preoccupation with the notion of 'comprehension' has led teachers to focus upon the product of listening, in the form of answers to questions, ignoring the listening process itself. The author provides an informed account of the psychological processes which make up the skill of listening, and analyses the characteristics of the speech signal from which listeners have to construct a message. Drawing upon this information, the book proposes a radical alternative to the comprehension approach and provides for intensive small-scale practice in aspects of listening that are perceptually or cognitively demanding for the learner. Listening in the Language Classroom was winner of the Ben Warren International Trust House Prize in 2008.