Academic listening: Research perspectives

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A collection of original papers by researchers working in the field which comprehensively addresses the area of second language academic listening. This collection of original papers comprehensively addresses the area of second language academic listening. The papers are grouped under five broad headings. The first section provides an overview of research relevant to second language lecture comprehension. The second analyses aspects of the cognitive processes involved in listening comprehension. In the third section, the object of the comprehension process is examined, and in the fourth, ethnographic approaches are explored by extending the concept of listening comprehension to place it in the wider context of 'the culture of learning'. In the final section, the theory of second language listening comprehension is related to practical pedagogic concerns. Each section is preceded by an accessible introduction and the book as a whole provides detailed coverage of important aspects of academic listening phenomena.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of contributors
• Series editors' preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I Background
• 1 Research of relevance to second language lecture comprehension - an overview
• Part II The Second Language Academic Listening Process
• 2 Expectation-driven understanding in information systems lecture comprehension
• 3 The effects of rhetorical signaling cues on the recall of English lecture information by speakers of English as a native or second language
• 4 Second language listening comprehension note-taking
• 5 On-line summaries as representations of lecture understanding
• Part III Discourse of Academic Lectures
• 6 Topic identification in lecture discourse
• 7 Variations in the discourse patterns favoured by different disciplines and their pedagogical implications
• 8 University lectures - macro-structures and micro-features
• Part IV Ethnography of Second Language Lectures
• 9 Lecture listening in an ethnographic perspective
• 10 By dint of: student and lecturer perceptions of lecture comprehension strategies in first-term graduate study
• 11 Visual and verbal messages in the engineering lecture: notetaking by postgraduate L2 students
• Part V Pedagogic Applications
• 12 Evaluating lecture comprehension
• 13 Training lecturers for international audiences
• Conclusion
• Index