1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Listening

Edited By Elvis Wagner, Aaron Olaf Batty, Evelina Galaczi Copyright 2024
426 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

426 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

426 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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Acknowledgements

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, USA, and is co-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 specializes in the use of AI in language education.