The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Listening

Elvis Wagner is Associate Professor of TESOL at Temple University, USA, and is co-editor of Language Assessment Quarterly. Aaron Olaf Batty is a Professor at Keio University in Fujisawa, Japan, and specializes in listening as well as vocabulary, writing, and sign language assessment research. Evelina Galaczi is Director of Research-English at Cambridge University Press and Assessment, and her recent work specializes in the use of AI in language education.

ContentsList of figuresList of tablesAcknowledgementsContributors1 Introduction to SLA and ListeningElvis Wagner, Aaron Olaf Batty & Evelina GalacziPART I Theoretical Foundations and Processes Underlying L2 Listening2 Cognitive Insights into First and Second Language Listening John Field3 Listening and Speech Perception Michael D. Tyler, Charles C. Ball & Catherine Best4 Listening and Theories of Second Language Acquisition Vahid Aryadoust, Tingting Liu & Maria Hidayati5 Listening and Cognitive Individual Differences Matthew P. Wallace & Zhisheng (Edward) Wen6 Listening and Affective Factors Xian Zhang & Harumi Kimura7 Listening Development and Learner Age Justyna Le?niewska & David Singleton PART II Core Topics in L2 Listening8 Differences between L2 and L1 Listening Mirjam Broersma 9 Differences between L2 Listening and Reading Sathena Chan10 Learning through Listening Andrea Revesz & Danni Shi11 Listening and Lexical Knowledge Stuart McLean, Joshua Matthews & Brett Milliner12 Listening and Grammatical Knowledge Hongwen Cai & Shangchao Min13 Listening and Pragmatics Naoko Taguchi14 Listening and Real-World Spoken Language Elvis Wagner & Santoi Wagner15 Listening and Comprehensibility Pavel Trofimovich, Oguzhan Teki & Rachael Lindberg PART III Teaching and Assessing L2 Listening16 Listening Activities in the Language Classroom Jonathan Newton17 Assessing Listening Gary J. Ockey18 Developing Segmenting Skills to Comprehend Connected Speech Yasuko It?19 Diagnostic Approaches in Teaching and Assessing Listening Tineke Brunfaut & Luke Harding 20 Enhancing Listening Skills of Hard of Hearing Learners Ewa Domaga?a-Zy?k & Anna Podlewska21 Listening in Academic Contexts Joseph Siegel & Linlin Wang22 Listening and Young Learners Yuko Goto Butler & Veronika Timpe-Laughlin PART IV Emerging L2 Listening Issues23 Visual Cues and Listening Aaron Olaf Batty & Ruslan Suvorov24 Listening and Interactional Competence Daniel M. K. Lam25 Listening in Multimodal Tasks Lia Plakans & GoMee Park26 Listening to Different Spoken Varieties Yongzhi Miao, Meghan Moran & Okim Kang27 Investigating Listening Through Technology Elaine Schmidt & Franz Holzknecht 28 New Technologies and Listening Development Amy Devine & Marian