Listening Comprehension Research: A Brief Review of the Past Thirty Years

By N. Osada. 2004

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Learners' Listening Comprehension Difficulties in English Language Learning: A Literature Review. (2016, background): “Osada (2004) stated that listening is not very important for both teachers and learners and teachers test not to teach listening and learners learn listening not listening comprehension.”
Cognitive Load Theory: An Empirical Study of Anxiety and Task Performance in Language Learning (2017, background): “Based on our knowledge of the information process, to capture spoken information, listeners must 1) comprehend the content as they listen to it, 2) retain information in their working memory, 3) integrate it with what follows, and 4) continually adjust their understanding of what they hear in light ”
Listening: the most difficult skill to teach (2014, background): “Furthermore, spoken discourse rarely presents consistently complete sentences, but instead short phrases or clusters loosely strung together (Osada 2004; Field, 2008), in which mispronunciation, hesitation, the rephrasing of utterances, repetition and even the losing track of what is wanting to be s”