Facilitating second language listening comprehension: acquiring successful strategies
Facilitating second language listening comprehension: acquiring successful strategies
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促进第二语言听力理解:获取成功策略
DOI:
10.1093/elt/53.3.168
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发表时间:
1999
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通讯作者:
Larry Vandergrift
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作者:
Larry Vandergrift
This paper presents arguments for an emphasis on listening comprehen- sion in language learning/teaching. An explanation of how listeners can use strategies to enhance the learning process is presented, with a review of the existing research base on how second language listening is taught. The major part of the paper presents and discusses pedagogical re- commendations, as well as examples of performance checklists for de- veloping metacognitive awareness. Introduction Listening comprehension is anything but a passive activity. It is a complex, active process in which the listener must discriminate between sounds, understand vocabulary and grammatical structures, interpret stress and intonation, retain what was gathered in all of the above, and interpret it within the immediate as well as the larger sociocultural context of the utterance. Co-ordinating all of this involves a great deal of mental activity on the part of the listener. Listening is hard work, and deserves more analysis and support. Listening comprehension as a separate and important component of language learning only came into focus after significant debate about its validity. Recent research has demonstrated the critical role of language input in language learning (e.g. Dunkel 1991, Feyten 1991), providing support for the primacy of listening comprehension in instructional methods. This has led Dunkel to assert that the study of listening comprehension has become the 'polestar' of second language acquisition theory building, research, and pedagogy. This paper will explain how listening comprehension can enhance the process of language learning/acquisition, how listeners can use strategies to facilitate that process, and how teachers can nurture the development of these strategies. Listening As mentioned above, it is now generally recognized that listening comprehension comprehension plays a key role in facilitating language learning. and language According to Gary (1975) giving pre-eminence to listening comprehen- learning sion, particularly in the early stages of second language teaching/ learning, provides advantages of four different types: cognitive, efficiency, utility, and affective. The cognitive advantage of an initial