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12 - Second Language Listening: Current Ideas, Current Issues

from Part III - Skill Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2019

By
John Field
Edited by
John W. Schwieter  and
Alessandro Benati
John W. Schwieter
Affiliation:
Wilfrid Laurier University
Alessandro Benati
Affiliation:
American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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This chapter starts (12.2) by mentioning the drawbacks of the approach conventionally adopted in second language (L2) listening instruction—in particular, its focus on the products of listening rather than the processes that contribute to it. It then offers an overview of our present understanding of what those processes are, drawing upon research findings in psycholinguistics, phonetics, and applied linguistics. section 12.3 examines what constitutes proficient listening and how the performance of an L2 listener diverges from it; and section 12.4 considers the perceptual problems caused by the nature of spoken input. Subsequent sections then cover various areas of research in L2 listening. Section 12.5 provides a brief summary of topics that have been of interest to researchers over the years; and section 12.6 reviews the large body of research into listening strategies. Section 12.7 then covers a number of interesting issues that have come to the fore in recent studies: multimodality; levels of listening vocabulary; cross-language phoneme perception; the use of a variety of accents; the validity of playing a recording twice; text authenticity; and listening anxiety. A final section (12.8) identifies one or two recurring themes that have arisen and considers how listening instruction is likely to develop in the future.

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Print publication year: 2019

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Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

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Save book to Dropbox

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Save book to Google Drive

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