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Acknowledgements |
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Glossary |
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Introduction: `Doing' Listening or `Teaching' Listening? |
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A final point on terminology |
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Part I Key Issues in the Teaching of Listening |
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1 Key Issues in Listening Pedagogy in the Second Language Classroom |
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Key issues guiding the teaching of listening |
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2 The Role of Learner Strategies in Second Language Listening |
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What do strategies involve? |
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Using strategies effectively |
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Learner strategies, motivation and self-efficacy |
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Different kinds of strategies |
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Exploring strategies in more depth |
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Prediction-based strategies and advance organisers |
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Prediction and verification/monitoring |
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Problematising `focusing' strategies further |
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The relationship between strategy use and linguistic knowledge |
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3 Teaching Listening Strategies in the Second Language Classroom |
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Can we teach listening strategies? Should we? |
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Models of strategy instruction |
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Examples of interventions to teach listening strategies |
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Do all learners benefit from listening strategy instruction? |
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Needs-based strategy instruction and feedback on strategy use |
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Part II How Listening Is Taught |
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4 What Teachers in England Say and Do about |
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Second Language Listening |
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Our project: setting the context |
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Teachers' beliefs about listening and what they claim to do in the classroom |
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Listening in practice: observations and interviews |
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5 How Textbooks Approach Listening |
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Listening in language teaching materials: empirical findings |
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Our project: what we wanted to explore, and why |
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Frequency of listening tasks |
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Listening and other skills |
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Characteristics of the listening passages |
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Commentaries in the Teacher's Book: focus on strategies? |
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To what extent do Teacher's Books consider metacognition in listening? |
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Part III Pedagogical Applications |
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6 Pedagogical Applications |
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Awareness-raising: how learners listen and how they can listen more effectively |
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Prediction and verification/monitoring |
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Listening for gist and identifying key words |
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Segmenting chunks of language |
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Understanding and adapting existing listening materials |
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Giving feedback on listening |
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Conclusion: from Current Scenarios to Improved Pedagogy |
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Appendices |
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References |
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Annotated Bibliography |
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Index |
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