General Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Interests, beliefs and metaphors
Section I Defining listening
Neurological processes
Hearing
Consciousness
Attention
Linguistic processing
Perceiving speech
Recognising words
Employing phonotactic rules
Applying grammatical rules
Managing spoken language
Utilising prosodic features
Integrating non-verbal cues
Pragmatic processing
Inferring speaker intention
Invoking social frames
Listener response
Listener collaboration
Psycholinguistic processing
Comprehension
Knowledge activation
Inference
Memory
Learning
Natural language processing
Speech recognition
Semantic analysis
Listening development and language acquisition
First language (L1) development of perception
L1 contextualised input
L1 cognitive restructuring
L2 acquisition: the role of listening
L2 listening acquisition: comprehensible input
L2 listening development: phonological and
lexical processing
L2 listening development: syntactic processing
L2 listening success or failure: context for learning
Section II Teaching listening
Approaches to teaching listening
Principles of instructional design
Influences from second language learning research
Methods
The historical search for the best method
Anti-methods and post methods
Skills taxonomies
Input
Relevance
Authenticity
Genres
Difficulty
Simplification
Teacher talk
Instructional design
Intensive listening
Selective listening
Interactive listening
Grammar processing
Multimedia
Strategy training
Listening-awareness training
Listening projects
Academic listening
Content-based listening
Self-access listening
.Methods for assessing listening
Types of tests
Specifications
Forms of tests
Factors that influence test performance
Deconstructing tests
Helping students prepare for tests
Oral interview tests
Listening proficiency scales
Testing example: an achievement test
Section III Researching listening
Approaches to researching listening
Purposes for research
Posing questions
Listening research projects
Listening in daily life
Listening and social roles
Pragmatic analysis
Cross-cultural pragmatics
Developing pragmatic competence
Speech processing
Comprehension and memory
Listening in interaction
Benchmarking effective listening
Causes of misunderstanding
Listening to lectures
Strategy training
Materials design and evaluation
Listening journals
Designing a self-access listening centre
Sample action research report
Section IV Exploring listening
Resources and references
Sources of listening material
Teaching resources
Guides for researching listening
Natural language processing research
Glossary
References
Index

General Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Interests, beliefs and metaphors
Section I Defining listening
Neurological processes
Hearing
Consciousness
Attention
Linguistic processing
Perceiving speech
Recognising words
Employing phonotactic rules
Applying grammatical rules
Managing spoken language
Utilising prosodic features
Integrating non-verbal cues
Pragmatic processing
Inferring speaker intention
Invoking social frames
Listener response
Listener colla...