Transcript Research in listening

Research in listening
Khajit Foythong
Faculty of Liberal of Arts and Science
Kasetsart University Kamphang Saeng
Campus
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Four areas :
• Listening in SLA
• Speech processing
• Listening in interactive setting
• Strategy use
Effective teaching involves:
• carful selection of input sources
• creative design on tasks
• assistance to help learners enact effective
strategies
• Integration of listening with other learning
proposes
Research
• Underwood(1989) describes listening in
terms of three phases: pre-,while-and
post-listening activities
• Richards(1990) provides an accessible
guide for teachers in constructing
exercises promoting ‘top down’ or ‘bottom
up processing
• Nunan(1995c) provides a compendium of
recipes for exercises for listening classes,
organized in four parts: developing for
cognitive strategies (listening for main
idea, listening for details, predicting),
developing listening with other skills,
listening to authentic material and using
technology.
• Published materials: Headway (Soars and
Soars), New Interchange (Richards et
al.1998)
Current and future trends and directions
• Listening pedagogy
- Lynch(1996) provides insightful studies of
individual listeners.
Product( how much the learner
understands)
Process( the strategies the learners
uses to gain understanding)
Perception (how the learners views or
experiences his or her own difficulties
and progress)
• Robbins(1997) tracks several ESL
learners , observing how their listening
strategies with native-speaker
conversation partners develop over time.
“Academic listening.
• Flowerdew(1994b) reviews several lines of
research on lecturing styles, speech
perception , text-structure analysis , notetaking and aural memory.
Listening technology
• Audiotape, videotape, CD-ROMs, DVDs
and internet downloads of sound and
video files.
• Curriculum design, teaching methodology,
material design, learning training and
testing
Future trends
• Curriculum design, teaching methodology,
material design, learning training and
testing
Source
Cater ,R and Nunan,D(2002)The Cambridge Guide To Teaching
English to Speakers of Other Languages
Questions:
Thank you