Listening Processes

Abstract

Listening is a complex process that engages the communicator in receiving, attending to, interpreting, and responding to speakers' messages. This communication function becomes more challenging when it comes to listening in a second language. This entry reviews the scholarship on the multidimensional process of listening and provides pedagogical recommendations for helping second language learners in developing their listening competencies.

YouTube-Assisted Listening Instruction (YALI): A Study of Listening Comprehension and Listening Anxiety of University Students of German as a Foreign Language

“…The cognitive, emotional, and behavioral experiences that individuals acquire throughout their lives enable them to create perceptual filters to perfectly interpret listening in real-life contexts (Wolvin, 2018). In doing so, individuals attach their own meaning to words, which in turn influences how they interpret incoming input during communication (Burley-Allen, 1995).…”

“…In this way, listening comprehension is seen as an active process involving the interaction of multiple underlying sub-processes (Becker, 2016). Many researchers (e.g., Glenn, 1989;Luu et al, 2021;Nunan & Miller, 1995;Rahimi & Soleymani, 2015;Vogely, 1995Vogely, , 1998Witkin, 1990;Wolvin, 2018) have concluded that listening comprehension in a foreign language is a complex process with hundreds of variables.…”

Competencia oral en ingles en estudiantes de un instituto técnico. Perú

“…Cuando no se impide el procesamiento exitoso de todos estos elementos, se forma una representación coherente del mensaje y puede ocurrir la comprensión (A. Wolvin, 2018). En la expresión oral, hablar, como habilidad lingüística productiva, ha sido un problema importante en aprendizaje del idioma inglés, ya que el éxito de los estudiantes en inglés a menudo está determinado por lo bien que pueden comunicarse en inglés (Y. Jiyoung, and C. Kyung-Whan, 2016).…”