Recent developments in second and foreign language listening comprehension research

By Larry Vandergrift. Language Teaching, 2007

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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Exploring the relationship between listening development and strategy use (2011, background): “Aware that memory constraints can be a ‘confounding variable’ in the use of recall protocols (Vandergrift, 2007, p.192), we tried to minimize memory effects by breaking each audio recording down into four very short sections, with a pause between each section.”
Effects of listening strategy instruction on news videotext comprehension (2009, background): “…‘real world’ listening situations or tasks (Mendelsohn, 1994) in order to help learners develop top-down processes to extract meaning from contextual and co-textual3 clues or by educated guessing based on other available information to compensate for comprehension breakdowns (Vandergrift, 2007a).”
Issues in Second Language Listening Comprehension and the Pedagogical Implications (2012, background): “Next, research focusing on the differences between more-skilled and less-skilled L2 learners in regulating the top-down and the bottom-up processes has provided ample evidence of the importance of metacognitive strategies to L2 listening success (Vandergrift, 2003, 2007; Goh, 2008).”
VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE AND ADVANCED LISTENING COMPREHENSION IN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (2009, background): “…meaning through the employment of two major knowledge sources: linguistic (e.g., phonological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic knowledge) and nonlinguistic (e.g., knowledge of the context, topic, or general knowledge of the world) (Buck, 2001 ; Rost, 2002 ; Vandergrift, 2007 ).”
TEXT CHARACTERISTICS OF TASK INPUT AND DIFFICULTY IN SECOND LANGUAGE LISTENING COMPREHENSION (2013, background): “…and parallel-distributed fashion, drawing on various types of knowledge sources such as linguistic (i.e., phonological, lexical, morphosyntactic, and pragmatic) knowledge, world knowledge, and knowledge about the specifi c communicative context (Buck, 2001 ; Hulstijn, 2003 ; Vandergrift, 2007 ).”
The Role of Task and Listener Characteristics in Second Language Listening. (2015, background): “Among the listening task factors that have been investigated are task input variables such as passage length, speech rate, linguistic complexity, and text content; variables related to task procedures, such as the nature of the task instructions and the number of times listening; and task response c”
Improving Listening Skills with Extensive Listening Using Podcasts and Vodcasts (2020, background): “Additionally, L2 learners are often not educated about the significance of listening as a language component and the development of listening skills (Berne, 2004; Vandergrift, 2007).”
Teacher beliefs about listening in a foreign language (2014, background): “…summarised thus: that effective listening strategies do not necessarily develop on their own (Graham, Santos, et al., 2008, 2011) but are teachable (Vandergrift, 2007), leading to the development of more effective listeners (Graham & Macaro, 2008); that focusing on both linguistic and contextual…”
The relationship between listening and other language skills in International English Language Testing System (2012, background): “…listening comprehension in human learning, in general and with a particular focus on language learning, many investigators, such as Goh (2008), Feyten (1991), Pinell and Jaggar (2003), Janusk (2002), and Vandergrift (2007) demonstrate that listening skill is tested rather than taught in classrooms.”
Oral corrective feedback in second language classrooms (2012, background): “Another under-studied but pedagogically crucial aspect in measuring phonological CF effectiveness includes the development of global listening skills (Vandergrift 2007).”
The Significance of Listening Comprehension in English Language Teaching (2016, background): “Listening is a significant skill to develop in second language learning (Rost, 2001; Vandergrift, 2007; Kurita, 2012).”