2012: TEACHING AND LEARNING SECOND LANGUAGE LISTENING: METACOGNITION IN ACTION

摘要

The explicit teaching of second language (L2) listening in the language classroom has often found itself neglected and was often left to be developed incidentally through tasks focusing on other language skills (Vandergrift and Goh 2009). With the development of theories by Krashen (1985) and Swain (1985) stressing the importance of listening in the communicative context as a source of comprehensible input and as an important aspect of interlanguage communication, listening has begun to move to the foreground and has gained a more prominent role in the classroom. The present volume seeks to change this perception by providing teachers and those in teacher education programs with a textbook and reference that will 'help teachers understand the process of listening, the role of metacognition in listening development, and how to teach listening more effectively' (p. (ⅹⅱ)).