Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

• Section A, Introduction, establishes the key terms and concepts and extends readers'
techniques of analysis through practical application.• Section B, Extension, brings together …

This study reviewed conceptualizations and operationalizations of second language (L2)
listening constructs. A total of 157 peer-reviewed papers published in 19 journals in applied …

This article presents an empirical study that investigates the role of vocabulary knowledge in
listening comprehension with 115 advanced Danish learners of English as a foreign …

Tests of ESL listening comprehension attempt to sample from language that reflects what
examinees will be expected to comprehend in the relevant contexts, but most listening tests …

TOEFL iBT: TOEFL iBT is the latest version of the TOEFL, whose history stretches back to
1961. The first paper-based TOEFL was administered in 1964, the related Test of Spoken …

Video is widely used in the teaching of L2 listening, and SLA researchers have argued that
the visual components of spoken texts are useful for the listener in comprehending aural …

Students who are beginning university studies face a bewildering range of obstacles and
adjustments, and many of these difficulties involve learning to use language in new ways …

This article reports on an exploratory study that investigated the comparability of listening
assessment tasks used to assess and report learning outcomes of adult ESL learners in …

The accessibility of video technology has made it possible to utilize both the auditory and
visual channels to present listening texts in the second language (L2) classroom and on L2 …