What the communication journal tell us about teaching listening

Teaching Listening: What Do We Do? What Should We Do?

“…A review of listening instruction publications found in communication journals through 1985 reported both traditional and nontraditional approaches to instruction (Rhodes, 1985). Traditional approaches included the lecture-discussion-practice test sequence, which was the most popular approach.…”

“…Approximately 29% of the listening-related literature published through 1985 addressed the teaching of listening (Rhodes, 1985). Rhodes provides a comprehensive compilation of listening instruction in communication journals, but the majority of the work cited is prior to 1980, and thus covered previously in this paper.…”