This chapter presents an overview of research to date of relevance to L2 lecture
comprehension. After a general introduction to the topic, the first main section of the paper …

Examines listening as both a means of achieving understanding and as a teachable skill.
The underlying theme of the volume is that an integration of cognitive, social, and …

A practical, insightful exploration of natural spoken English based on 20 varied authentic
extracts. Exploring Spoken English is a practical guide to the features of natural spoken …

This paper adopts an ethnographic approach to the study of second language lecture
comprehension. It studies a group of 30 1st year Hong Kong Chinese students listening to …

EAP teaching materials frequently emphasise the importance of text-structuring
metadiscourse (sometimes referred to as 'signposting'language) to signal hierarchical …

This book represents the culmination of several years of work focusing on the discourse of
business studies, one of the most dynamic and popular disciplines in institutes of higher …

PurPose—To establish what is currently known about factors that affect foreign language
listening comprehension, with a focus on characteristics of the listener, passage, and testing …

This article reports on an ethnographic research project that investigated an ESL student's
actual listening activities during one academic course at a US university. Having …

How is the task of giving a presentation accomplished? In this insightful book Johanna
Rendle-Short unpacks this seemingly simple task to show the complexity that underlies it …

There is a small-scale but healthy tradition of research into academic spoken discourse in
both its British and North American variants. Some of this research comes from …