The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Listening by Wagner, Elvis; Batty, Aaron Olaf; Galaczi, Evelina;

Short description:

The Routledge Companion of Second Language Acquisition and Listening offers a state of the art, systematic discussion of the role of listening in second language acquisition (SLA) and use.

Long description:

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Listening offers a state-of-the-art, systematic discussion of the role of listening in second language acquisition (SLA) and use.

This handbook positions listening not just as a receptive comprehension skill, but also as an integral part of interaction, a vital component in the process of language acquisition, and a skill which needs attention in its own right.

World-leading international scholars synthesize and contextualize the salient theoretical approaches, methodological issues, empirical findings, practical applications, and emerging themes in L2 listening development and processing. They illustrate the role that L2 listening ability plays in understanding SLA and interactional competence, and set the future research agenda to move the field forward.

This volume is an indispensable resource to students, scholars, and practitioners from the fields of SLA, cognitive psychology, language teaching, and assessment, as well as those interested in pronunciation, speaking, and oral communication.

Table of Contents:

ContentsList of figuresList of tablesAcknowledgementsContributors 1 Introduction to SLA and ListeningElvis Wagner, Aaron Olaf Batty & Evelina Galaczi PART I Theoretical Foundations and Processes Underlying L2 Listening2 Cognitive Insights into First and Second Language Listening John Field3 Listening and Speech Perception Michael D. Tyler, Charles C. Ball & Catherine Best4 Listening and Theories of Second Language Acquisition Vahid Aryadoust, Tingting Liu & Maria Hidayati5 Listening and Cognitive Individual Differences Matthew P. Wallace & Zhisheng (Edward) Wen6 Listening and Affective Factors Xian Zhang & Harumi Kimura7 Listening Development and Learner Age Justyna Le?niewska & David Singleton PART II Core Topics in L2 Listening8 Differences between L2 and L1 Listening Mirjam Broersma 9 Differences between L2 Listening and Reading Sathena Chan10 Learning through Listening Andrea Revesz & Danni Shi11 Listening and Lexical Knowledge Stuart McLean, Joshua Matthews & Brett Milliner12 Listening and Grammatical Knowledge Hongwen Cai & Shangchao Min13 Listening and Pragmatics Naoko Taguchi14 Listening and Real-World Spoken Language Elvis Wagner & Santoi Wagner15 Listening and Comprehensibility Pavel Trofimovich, Oguzhan Teki & Rachael Lindberg PART III Teaching and Assessing L2 Listening16 Listening Activities in the Language Classroom Jonathan Newton17 Assessing Listening Gary J. Ockey18 Developing Segmenting Skills to Comprehend Connected Speech Yasuko It?19 Diagnostic Approaches in Teaching and Assessing Listening Tineke Brunfaut & Luke Harding 20 Enhancing Listening Skills of Hard of Hearing Learners Ewa Domaga?a-Zy?k & Anna Podlewska21 Listening in Academic Contexts Joseph Siegel & Linlin Wang22 Listening and Young Learners Yuko Goto Butler & Veronika Timpe-Laughlin PART IV Emerging L2 Listening Issues23 Visual Cues and Listening Aaron Olaf Batty & Ruslan Suvorov24 Listening and Interactional Competence Daniel M. K. Lam25 Listening in Multimodal Tasks Lia Plakans & GoMee Park26 Listening to Different Spoken Varieties Yongzhi Miao, Meghan Moran & Okim Kang27 Investigating Listening Through Technology Elaine Schmidt & Franz Holzknecht 28 New Technologies and Listening Development Amy Devine & Marian