ABSTRACT
Listening is now regarded by researchers and practitioners as a highly active skill involving prediction, inference, reflection, constructive recall, and often direct interaction with speakers. In this new theoretical and practical guide, Michael Rost and JJ Wilson demonstrate how active listening can be developed through guided instruction. With so many new technologies and platforms for communication, there are more opportunities than ever before for learners to access listening input, but this abundance leads to new challenges:
- how to choose the right input
- how to best use listening and viewing input inside and outside the classroom
- how to create an appropriate syllabus using available resources
Active Listening explores these questions in clear, accessible prose, basing its findings on a theoretical framework that condenses the most important listening research of the last two decades. Showing how to put theory into practice, the book includes fifty innovative activities, and links each one to relevant research principles. Sample audio recordings are also provided for selected activities, available online at the series website www.pearsoned.co.uk/rostwilson.
As a bridge between theory and practice, Active Listening will encourage second language teachers, applied linguists, language curriculum coordinators, researchers, and materials designers to become more active practitioners themselves, by more fully utilising research in the field of second language listening.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |19 pages
From Research to Implications
part |218 pages
From Implications to Application
chapter Frame 1|37 pages
Affective Frame
chapter Frame 2|46 pages
Top Down Frame
chapter Frame 3|42 pages
Bottom Up Frame
chapter Frame 4|43 pages
Interactive Frame
chapter Frame 5|46 pages
Autonomous Frame
part |36 pages
From Application to Implementation
chapter Issue 1|5 pages
Choosing the content of the listening curriculum
chapter Issue 2|4 pages
Organising the listening curriculum
chapter Issue 3|3 pages
Integrating listening with other skills
chapter Issue 4|4 pages
Adapting the listening curriculum: institutional constraints and opportunities
chapter Issue 5|9 pages
Adapting the listening curriculum: different student populations
chapter Issue 6|6 pages
Adapting and creating the listening curriculum: different teachers
part |28 pages
From Implementation to Research