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Book Linguisti c and Non Linguisti c Knowledge for L2 Listening Comprehension

Download or read book Linguisti c and Non Linguisti c Knowledge for L2 Listening Comprehension written by Dr. Ramli, S.S., M.Pd. and published by SAH MEDIA. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listening in Second language (L2) is one of fundamental aspects in learning. Listening in EFL is unavoidable in L2 learning since learners often do listening frequently and essentially to facilitate the development of their English proficiency. Cahyono & Widiati (2011) state that there is a concern regarding listening in the field of language teaching as receptive skill to acknowledge that listening process is complex. The formidable challenges of L2 listening comprehension which poses the learners to develop other L2 language skills has long been highlighted and observed (Ferris & Tagg, 1996; Goh, 2000; Graham, 2006; Vandergrift, 2007; Goh, 2008; Graham & Macaro, 2008; Gatehouse & Akerovd, 2008; Woodall, 2010; Field, 2008a, 2008b, 2010; Aldera, 2013; Perez et al., 2013; Siegel, 2013; Chang & Millett, 2014; Sommers, 2015).

Book Understanding L2 Proficiency

Download or read book Understanding L2 Proficiency written by Eun Hee Jeon and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume is a collection of theoretical and empirical overviews of second language (L2) proficiency based on four skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Each skill is reviewed in terms of how it has been conceptualized, measured, and studied over the years in relation to relevant (sub-) constructs of the language skill under discussion. This is followed by meta-analyses of correlation coefficients that examine the relationship between the L2 skill in question and its component variables. Unlike most meta-analyses that have a limited range of variables under investigation, our meta-analyses are much larger in scope to better clarify such relationships. By combining theoretical and empirical approaches, the book is helpful in deepening the understanding of how subcomponents or various variables are related to a particular L2 skill.

Book Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning

Download or read book Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning written by Edith Kaan and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is ample evidence that language users, including second-language (L2) users, can predict upcoming information during listening and reading. Yet it is still unclear when, how, and why language users engage in prediction, and what the relation is between prediction and learning. This volume presents a collection of current research, insights, and directions regarding the role of prediction in L2 processing and learning. The contributions in this volume specifically address how different (L1-based) theoretical models of prediction apply to or may be expanded to account for L2 processing, report new insights on factors (linguistic, cognitive, social) that modulate L2 users’ engagement in prediction, and discuss the functions that prediction may or may not serve in L2 processing and learning. Taken together, this volume illustrates various fruitful approaches to investigating and accounting for differences in predictive processing within and across individuals, as well as across populations.

Book Components of L2 Reading

Download or read book Components of L2 Reading written by Toshihiko Shiotsu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book investigates the linguistic and processing factors underpinning Japanese EFL learners' reading comprehension performance.

Book Comprehending Oral and Written Language

Download or read book Comprehending Oral and Written Language written by Rosalind Horowitz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by respected researchers in their field, this book is about the skills beyond basic word recognition that are necessary for the processing and comprehension of spoken and written language. The major topics presented are as follows: language and text analysis; cognitive processing and comprehension; development of literacy; literacy and schooling; and, factors influencing listening and reading.

Book Listening in the Language Classroom

Download or read book Listening in the Language Classroom written by John Field and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the orthodox approach to the teaching of second language listening, which is based upon the asking and answering of comprehension questions. The book's central argument is that a preoccupation with the notion of 'comprehension' has led teachers to focus upon the product of listening, in the form of answers to questions, ignoring the listening process itself. The author provides an informed account of the psychological processes which make up the skill of listening, and analyses the characteristics of the speech signal from which listeners have to construct a message. Drawing upon this information, the book proposes a radical alternative to the comprehension approach and provides for intensive small-scale practice in aspects of listening that are perceptually or cognitively demanding for the learner. Listening in the Language Classroom was winner of the Ben Warren International Trust House Prize in 2008.

Book Cognitive Load Theory and Foreign Language Listening Comprehension

Download or read book Cognitive Load Theory and Foreign Language Listening Comprehension written by Dayu Jiang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Measuring L2 Proficiency

Download or read book Measuring L2 Proficiency written by Pascale Leclercq and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together concrete ideas on identifying and measuring second language (L2) proficiency from different branches of SLA. The chapters introduce a range of tools for the evaluation of learners' language level with respect to both productive and receptive skills and provide a variety of answers to the question of how to assess L2 proficiency in a valid, reliable and practical manner.

Book Academic listening in non native languages  Strategies and problems for L2 students

Download or read book Academic listening in non native languages Strategies and problems for L2 students written by Anxhela Xibraku and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: MSc, , course: English Language, language: English, abstract: This study explains the listening difficulties the L2 student experiences in non-native language classrooms and the strategies to improve L2 student listening skills. After general and specific review regarding the importance of listening, this paper addresses the frustrations for the L2 student, and then offers teacher strategies to calm student learning/listening anxieties. The purpose of this paper is to remind everyone about the importance of listening, to remind ordinary people, students, professors. This paper will make them rethink; also, it will help them with the solutions. “Listening” has its own frustrations and anxieties. So additionally, this paper will have us consider these frustrations and anxieties and arrive at smart simple solutions to facilitate listening for everyone. Listening is a complex process and the reason why students face difficulties even if they have high language competence. This paper looks at these difficulties that students face during academic listening and listening the anxiety and its theories. Also, reviews the relation of student- professor during the listening process. Students learning a second language confront different stages; there are shown five stages of listening comprehension, and the advance of listening during the five stages. There are the techniques of reduction of anxiety and students help in listening activities. In this paper are given the best listening strategies, methods, modification of language process, and the effects of four types listening support.

Book Teaching and Researching  Listening

Download or read book Teaching and Researching Listening written by Michael Rost and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, and shows how these processes influence listening in a range of practical contexts. Through understanding the interaction between these processes, language educators and researchers can develop more robust research methods and more effective classroom language teaching approaches. In this fully revised and updated second edition, the book: examines a full range of teaching methods and research initiatives related to listening gives definitions of key concepts in neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics provides a clear agenda for implementing listening strategies and designing tests offers an abundance of resources for immediate use for teaching and research Featuring insightful quotes and concept boxes, chapter overviews and summaries to guide the reader, Teaching and Researching Listening will engage and inform teachers, teacher trainers and researchers investigating communicative language use.

Book Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition

Download or read book Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition written by Zhisheng (Edward) Wen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents comprehensive, thorough and updated analyses of key cognitive individual difference factors (e.g., age, intelligence, language aptitude, working memory, metacognition, learning strategies, and anxiety) as they relate to the acquisition, processing, assessment, and pedagogy of second or foreign languages. Critical reviews and in-depth research syntheses of these pivotal cognitive learner factors are put into historical and broader contexts, drawing upon the multiple authors' extensive research experience, penetrating insights and unique perspectives spanning applied linguistics, teacher training, educational psychology, and cognitive science. The carefully crafted chapters provide essential course readings and valuable references for seasoned researchers and aspiring postgraduate students in the broad fields of instructed second language acquisition, foreign language training, teacher education, language pedagogy, educational psychology, and cognitive development.

Book Developing Second language Listening Comprehension

Download or read book Developing Second language Listening Comprehension written by Petra Poelmans and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Accessing the Workings of the Mind

Download or read book Accessing the Workings of the Mind written by Dr Li-Ling Chuang and published by Chartridge Books Oxford. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an extended study on the role of brain and cognition in L2 learning processes. By taking account of the type of encoding needed to convert input into intake and the tasks that EFL young learners are capable of, this book hopes to inform L2 practitioners of the potentially effective repertoire to assist L2 learners in advancing further their English learning. The author Dr.Li-ling Chuang is Associate Professor of Graduate Institute of Children's English at NCUE, Taiwan. She received her doctoral degree in Linguistics from UMCP, USA. Prior to joining the faculty at NCUE, she had served as a head of Department of English at Dayeh University. Current research interests include brain-based L2 teaching, L2 acquisition and processing, and L2 learning strategies.

Book Teaching and Researching Listening

Download or read book Teaching and Researching Listening written by Michael Rost and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its third edition, Teaching and Researching Listening renews its commitment to provide language educators, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of ESL, TESOL, and Applied Linguistics with a state-of-the-art treatment of the linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes underpinning oral language use, and demonstrates how they influence listening in a variety of practical contexts. This revised edition incorporates significantly updated sections on neurological processing, pragmatic processing, automated processing, and pragmatic assessment, as well as coverage of emerging areas of interest in L1 and L2 instruction and research. Boxes throughout, including "Concepts" and "Ideas From Practitioners", help to both reinforce readers’ understanding of the topics covered and ground them in a practical context, while the updated chapter, "Exploring listening", contains an overhauled section on listening technologies that provide readers with a range of tools to explore other perspectives on listening. Combining detailed overviews of the underlying processes of listening with an exhaustive set of practical resources, this third edition of Teaching and Researching Listening serves as an authoritative comprehensive survey of issues related to teaching and researching oral communication for language teachers, practitioners, and researchers.

Book Reading in a Second Language

Download or read book Reading in a Second Language written by William Grabe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding reading abilities and their development is fundamental for language comprehension and human cognition. Now in its second edition, this book draws on research from multiple disciplines to explain reading abilities in both L1 and L2, and shows how this research can be applied in practice in order to support reading development. Research into reading has progressed a great deal since the first edition was published, so this edition has been completely updated and revised, in order to reflect these advances. All chapters present updated research studies, and completely new chapters are included on the neurocognition of reading, reading-writing relationships, and digital reading. If you want to know how reading works, no matter the language(s) involved, as well as how it can be taught effectively, this book provides a persuasive research foundation and many practical insights. It is essential reading for academic researchers and students in Applied Linguistics and TESOL.

Book Working Memory and Second Language Learning

Download or read book Working Memory and Second Language Learning written by Zhisheng (Edward) Wen and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces an approach to understanding and measuring working memory components and functions in second language learning, processing and development. It presents comprehensive, thorough and updated reviews of relevant literatures from cognitive sciences and applied linguistics. Drawing on multidisciplinary research, the book advocates a conceptual framework for integrating working memory theories with second language acquisition theories. An innovative theoretical model is also presented, which illuminates research studies investigating the distinctive roles of phonological and executive working memory as they relate to specific L2 learning domains, skills and processes. Theoretical and methodological implications of this integrative perspective are further elaborated and discussed within the specific realms of L2 task-based performance and language aptitude research.