Teaching and Researching: Listening

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ISBN: 9781408205075 | 1408205076
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Copyright: 1/26/2011

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Part of the highly-regarded Applied Linguistics in Actionseries, Teaching and Researching: Listening, offers a clear, comprehensive overview of one of the#xA0;major areas in applied linguistics research and practice.#xA0;Michael Rost, one of the foremost experts in the world, provides an overview of theoretical developments up to the present day, and offers#xA0;suggestions for future research and practice. Presents an up-to-date summary of the latest developments in the field. Provides research evidence for the main ideas and concepts of the topic. Draws out applications of the theories addressed. Offers practical guidance - including a 'how to research guide'. #xA0;

General Editors' Preface	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Publisher's Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Section Introduction: Perspectives on listening	p. 1
Defining listening	p. 7
Neurological processing	p. 11
Hearing	p. 11
Consciousness
Attention	p. 18
Individual differences in neurological processes	p. 22
Linguistic processing	p. 25
Perceiving speech	p. 25
Identifying units of spoken language	p. 27
Using prosodic features in processing speech	p. 30
Recognising words	p. 34
Employing phonotactic knowledge	p. 39
Utilising syntactic parsing	p. 45
Integrating non-verbal cues into linguistic processing	p. 50
Semantic processing	p. 53
Comprehension: the role of knowledge structures	p. 53
Cognitive understanding: the role of schemata	p. 57
Social understanding: the role of common ground	p. 60
The role of inference in constructing meaning	p. 61
Listener enrichment of input	p. 62
Problem-solving during comprehension	p. 63
Reasoning during comprehension	p. 66
Compensatory strategies during comprehension	p. 70
Memory building during comprehension	p. 72
Comprehension and learning	p. 73
Pragmatic processing	p. 77
Listening from a pragmatic perspective	p. 77
Inferring speaker intention	p. 79
Detecting deception	p. 84
Enriching speaker meaning	p. 85
Invoking social expectations	p. 86
Adjusting affective involvement	p. 88
Formulating responses	p. 91
Connecting with the speaker	p. 95
Automatic processing	p. 99
Goals of automatic processing	p. 99
Linguistic processing	p. 102
Semantic processing	p. 109
Pragmatic processing	p. 113
Listening in language acquisition	p. 117
Listening in L1 acquisition: development of linguistic processing	p. 117
Listening in L1 acquisition: development of semantic processing	p. 124
Listening in L1 acquisition: development of pragmatic processing	p. 127
Listening in L2 acquisition: development of linguistic processing	p. 130
Listening in L2 acquisition: development of semantic processing	p. 136
Listening in L2 acquisition: development of pragmatic processing	p. 138
Teaching listening	p. 143
Approaches to teaching listening	p. 146
Contexts for teaching listening	p. 146
SLA research and language pedagogy	p. 150
Input and interaction	p. 160
Relevance	p. 161
Genres	p. 162
Authenticity	p. 165
Vocabulary	p. 168
Difficulty	p. 170
Simplification	p. 172
Restructuring	p. 174
Interaction	p. 174
Strategies	p. 177
Instructional design	p. 182
Designing instruction to include a range of listening types	p. 183
Intensive listening	p. 184
Selective listening	p. 186
Interactive listening	p. 190
Extensive listening	p. 193
Responsive listening	p. 197
Autonomous listening	p. 200
Listening assessment	p. 204
Defining the social and educational context for assessment	p. 204
Developing criteria and constructs	p. 207
Formulating a model of listening for assessment	p. 212
Creating forms of assessment	p. 214
Adjusting factors that influence test performance	p. 218
Listener preparation for listening tests	p. 221
Assessing listening proficiency in oral interview tests	p. 224
Describing listening proficiency	p. 226
Researching listening	p. 231
Sociolinguistic orientations	p. 235
Listener perspective	p. 235
Listener participation	p. 242
Listener response	p. 247
Listeners in cross-cultural interactions	p. 252
Psycholinguistic orientations	p. 257
Listener processing	p. 257
Listener memory	p. 261
Listener misunderstandings	p. 266
Listener strategies	p. 272
Developmental orientations	p. 277
Academic listening	p. 277
Listening materials	p. 281
Autonomous listening	p. 284
Teacher training	p. 288
Exploring listening	p. 293
Resources for further exploration	p. 295
Resources for teaching listening	p. 295
Resources for researching listening	p. 300
Glossary	p. 311
References	p. 349
Index	p. 397
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