Listening in the Language Classroom Cambridge Language Teaching Library 1st edition by John Field 0521866782 9780521866781

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ISBN 10: 0521866782

ISBN 13: 9780521866781

Author: John Field

This book challenges the orthodox approach to the teaching of second language listening, which is based upon the asking and answering of comprehension questions. The book’s central argument is that a preoccupation with the notion of ‘comprehension’ has led teachers to focus upon the product of listening, in the form of answers to questions, ignoring the listening process itself. The author provides an informed account of the psychological processes which make up the skill of listening, and analyses the characteristics of the speech signal from which listeners have to construct a message. Drawing upon this information, the book proposes a radical alternative to the comprehension approach and provides for intensive small-scale practice in aspects of listening that are perceptually or cognitively demanding for the learner. Listening in the Language Classroom was winner of the Ben Warren International Trust House Prize in 2008.

Listening in the Language Classroom Cambridge Language Teaching Library 1st Table of contents:

Part I Background
1 Listening then and now
2 The comprehension approach: pluses and minuses

Part II Rethinking the comprehension approach
3 Listening and the learner
4 Types of listening

Part III Process, not product
5 A diagnostic approach to L2 listening
6 Dividing listening into its components
7 A process approach

Part IV A process view of listening
8 Input and context
9 Decoding and the inconsistent signal
10 Decoding: sounds, syllables and words
11 Using grammar and intonation
12 Amplifying what the speaker says
13 Handling information

Part V The challenge of the real world
14 Real speech
15 Listening strategies
16 Strategy instruction in second language listening

Part VI Conclusion
17 Fitting it together

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