ENG 571 Lecture 7: Ch 7- Dimensions of Academic Listening (1)
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Academic Listening
● Academic Listening: process spoken lang in academic
contexts
● Seminars, media, etc.
● transmission /comp of beliefs, values, & cultures
● Body lang
● Goals: impart knowledge, teach skills, practice
discourses, & practical thinking
Psychometric
research into
listening to lectures
● Psychometric approach measures effects on levels of
comp from variation in input presented
● Research involves speech rate & pausology
● Tests effect of syntactic & discourse modification
● Addresses foreign accents & comparisons on diff
types of listening support
Discourse analysis
research into
listening to lectures
● Spoken texts examined to discover features listeners
need to be able to identify to help listening
● Focused on lexical phrases
● Lengths of texts, silent periods, discourse patterns in
talk
● Non-relevant info in pronouns & use of slang
expressions
Research into
listening strategies
● Studies use variety of research tools:
○ analysis of listening tests
○ Questionnaires
○ analysis of student listening diaries
○ use of student talk aloud procedures
○ Strategy instruction sessions
● Research shows diff types of learner strategies,
relationships bt strategy types & lang proficiency &
some learner issues when using strategies
● skills= useful way to think ab academic listening
process & prep academic listening materials
Ethnographic
research into
academic listening
● Study of behavior/beliefs of groups
● Becoming more popular
● Challenges:
○ Variety of research tools needed
○ Takes long time
○ 2+ researchers have to be involved
● Findings show student lecturers share some
perceptions about lectures