TY - BOOK AU - Flowerdew, John ED - City University of Hong Kong TI - Academic Listening: Research Perspectives SN - 9780521455510 (pbk) AV - P95.46 .A27 1994 PY - 1994/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Listening KW - Lecture method in teaching KW - Comprehension N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; "A collection of original papers by researchers working in the field which comprehensively addresses the area of second language academic listening ; This collection of original papers comprehensively addresses the area of second language academic listening. The papers are grouped under five broad headings. The first section provides an overview of research relevant to second language lecture comprehension. The second analyses aspects of the cognitive processes involved in listening comprehension. In the third section, the object of the comprehension process is examined, and in the fourth, ethnographic approaches are explored by extending the concept of listening comprehension to place it in the wider context of 'the culture of learning'. In the final section, the theory of second language listening comprehension is related to practical pedagogic concerns. Each section is preceded by an accessible introduction and the book as a whole provides detailed coverage of important aspects of academic listening phenomena." (Publisher's Website); CONTENTS ; I. Background ; Chapter 1. Research of relevance to second language lecture comprehension -- an overview / John Flowerdew ; II. The Second Language Academic Listening Process ; Chapter 2. Expectation-driven understanding in information systems lecture comprehension / Steve Tauroza and Desmond Allison ; Chapter 3. The effects of rhetorical signaling cues on the recall of English lecture information by speakers of English as a native or second language / Patricia A. Dunkel and James N. Davis ; Chapter 4. Second language listening comprehension and lecture note-taking / Craig Chaudron, Lester Loschky and Janice Cook ; Chapter 5. On-line summaries as representations of lecture understanding / Michael Rost ; III. Discourse of Academic Lectures ; Chapter 6. Topic identification in lecture discourse / Christa Hansen ; Chapter 7. Variations in the discourse patterns favoured by different disciplines and their pedagogical implications / Tony Dudley-Evans ; Chapter 8. University lectures - macro-structure and micro-features / Lynne Young ; IV. Ethnography of Second Language Lectures ; Chapter 9. Lecture listening in an ethnographic perspective / Malcolm J. Benson ; Chapter 10. By dint of: Student and lecturer perceptions of lecture comprehension strategies in first-term graduate study / Abelle Mason ; Chapter 11. Visual and verbal messages in the engineering lecture: notetaking by postgraduate L2 students / Philip King ; V. Pedagogic Applications ; Chapter 12. Evaluating lecture comprehension / Christa Hansen and Christine Jensen ; Chapter 13. Training lecturers for international audiences / Tony Lynch UR - http://www.cambridge.org/ca/cambridgeenglish/catalog/teacher-training-development-and-research/academic-listening/academic-listening-research-perspectives?localeText=Canada&locale=en_CA&format=PB&remember_me=on UR - https://ocul-uo.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_UO/gege1p/alma991010401789705161 ER -