Handbook of Second Language Listening

MARNIE REED is Professor Emerita of TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Boston University. She is co-author of Phonetics in Language Teaching and co-editor of Listening in the Classroom. With John M. Levis, she co-edited The Handbook of English Pronunciation for Wiley Blackwell in 2015. JOHN M. LEVIS is Distinguished Professor of Applied Linguistics and Technology at Iowa State University. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Second Language Pronunciation and author of Intelligibility, Oral Communication and the Teaching of Pronunciation. Levis has co-edited several seminal volumes including Second Language Pronunciation: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Teaching (Wiley Blackwell, 2022), and is recognized internationally for his research on second language pronunciation and oral communication.

• Notes on Contributors ixForeword xxiPart I L1 and L2 Listening 11 L2 Listening: How Perception, Strategies, Technology, and Assessment Have Reshaped the Field 3John Levis2 Perceptual Foundations of Second Language Phonetic Learning 15Alexis K. Black, Gayatri Choudhary, and Thalia Hernandez-DePaoli3 The Challenges of L2 Spoken Word Recognition 29Mirjam Broersma4 Historical Trends in Teaching Listening 43Michael Rost5 Decolonial Theory and L2 Listening 56Mark R. Emerick and Dylan Ashton6 Professional Training for Teaching Listening: Abiding Issues and Guiding Principles in an Era of Evolving Language Pedagogies 70Marnie Reed Copyrighted MaterialPart II Perception 857 Speech Perception in a Second Language 87Sadi Phillips and Isabelle Darcy8 Modeling Second Language Perception 100Arkadiusz Rojczyk and Yanping li9 Processing Second/Foreign-Language Prosody 112Annie Tremblay10 Prosody and L2 Listening 125Chie Nakamura and Suzanne Flynn11 Orthography and L2 Perception 139Robert Cavaluzzi, Christoforos Souganidis, and Antje Stoehr12 What Do the Stimuli in High Variability Phonetic Training Tell Us About Second Language Perception? Current Findings, Implications, and the Way Forward 155Janice Wing Sze WONGPart III Research and Assessment for L2 Listening 16913 The Assessment of L2 Listening: Models, Constructs, Performance Factors, and Item Types 171Gary J. Ockey and Erika Latham14 Technology in Listening Assessment 185Ruslan Suvorov and Pelin Irgin15 Listeners’ Self-Assessment of Second Language Speech 199Ingrid Mora-Plaza and Mireia Ortega16 Methodological Options in Researching L2 Listening 213Yunhua Shen and Lawrence Jun ZhangPart IV Basic Approaches and Concepts 22917 Approaches to L2 Listening Instruction 231Michael Yeldham18 Bottom-Up and Top-Down Listening 246Tamara Jones19 Metacognitive Strategies in L2 Listening 260Mohammadreza Dalman20 Strategy Instruction for Teaching L2 Listening Skills in Language Classrooms 274Phung Dao, Zehui Yang, and Mai Xuan Nhat Chi Nguyen21 Individual Differences in L2 Perception 290Solène InceogluPart V Technology-Supported L2 Listening 30522 Out-of-Class Listening: Multiple Channels and Modes for FL Learning and Teaching 307Art Tsang23 Computer-Based Second Language Listening 321Mónica S. Cárdenas-Claros24 Visual Input and Second Language Listening 334Daniel R. Isbell and Jieun Kim25 Toward Listening 4.0: Technology-Based Instruction, Research, and Assessment 348di LiuPart VI Practical Considerations 36326 Listening in Task-Based Language Teaching 365Natsuko Shintani and Aki Tsunemoto27 A 4-Step Approach for Listening to Authentic Speech 380Alice Henderson28 Understanding Academic Talks: Does a Focus on Prosody Help? 396Veronica G. Sardegna and Anna Jarosz29 Vocabulary and L2 Listening 415Takumi Uchihara30 Second Language Listening and Connected Speech 429Nathaniel Carney31 Second Language Listening Processes and Pedagogy: Implications for Teaching Young Learners 444Kiren Kaur and Christine C. M. GohIndex 459