1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Listening
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.
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.
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Contributors
1 Introduction to SLA and Listening
Elvis Wagner, Aaron Olaf Batty & Evelina Galaczi
PART I Theoretical Foundations and Processes Underlying L2 Listening
2 Cognitive Insights into First and Second Language Listening
John Field
3 Listening and Speech Perception
Michael D. Tyler, Charles C. Ball & Catherine Best
4 Listening and Theories of Second Language Acquisition
Vahid Aryadoust, Tingting Liu & Maria Hidayati
5 Listening and Cognitive Individual Differences
Matthew P. Wallace & Zhisheng (Edward) Wen
6 Listening and Affective Factors
Xian Zhang & Harumi Kimura
7 Listening Development and Learner Age
Justyna Leśniewska & David Singleton
PART II Core Topics in L2 Listening
8 Differences between L2 and L1 Listening
Mirjam Broersma
9 Differences between L2 Listening and Reading
Sathena Chan
10 Learning through Listening
Andrea Revesz & Danni Shi
11 Listening and Lexical Knowledge
Stuart McLean, Joshua Matthews & Brett Milliner
12 Listening and Grammatical Knowledge
Hongwen Cai & Shangchao Min
13 Listening and Pragmatics
Naoko Taguchi
14 Listening and Real-World Spoken Language
Elvis Wagner & Santoi Wagner
15 Listening and Comprehensibility
Pavel Trofimovich, Oguzhan Teki & Rachael Lindberg
PART III Teaching and Assessing L2 Listening
16 Listening Activities in the Language Classroom
Jonathan Newton
17 Assessing Listening
Gary J. Ockey
18 Developing Segmenting Skills to Comprehend Connected Speech
Yasuko Itō
19 Diagnostic Approaches in Teaching and Assessing Listening
Tineke Brunfaut & Luke Harding
20 Enhancing Listening Skills of Hard of Hearing Learners
Ewa Domagała-Zyśk & Anna Podlewska
21 Listening in Academic Contexts
Joseph Siegel & Linlin Wang
22 Listening and Young Learners
Yuko Goto Butler & Veronika Timpe-Laughlin
PART IV Emerging L2 Listening Issues
23 Visual Cues and Listening
Aaron Olaf Batty & Ruslan Suvorov
24 Listening and Interactional Competence
Daniel M. K. Lam
25 Listening in Multimodal Tasks
Lia Plakans & GoMee Park
26 Listening to Different Spoken Varieties
Yongzhi Miao, Meghan Moran & Okim Kang
27 Investigating Listening Through Technology
Elaine Schmidt & Franz Holzknecht
28 New Technologies and Listening Development
Amy Devine & Marianne Pickles
29 Epilogue: What Next in L2 Learning, Teaching, and Assessing?
Evelina Galaczi, Elvis Wagner & Aaron Olaf Batty
Biography
Elvis Wagner is Associate Professor of TESOL at Temple University, and is editor of Language Assessment Quarterly.
Aaron Olaf Batty is a Professor at Keio University in Fujisawa, Japan and specializes in listening as well as vocabulary, writing, and sign language assessment research.
Evelina Galaczi is Director of Research-English at Cambridge University Press and Assessment, and her recent work specialises in the use of AI in language education.
