Object's details: Getting to the bottom of L2 listening instruction: Making a case for bottom-up activities

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Title:
Getting to the bottom of L2 listening instruction: Making a case for bottom-up activities
Creator:
Siegel, Joseph;
Siegel, Aki
Description:
This paper argues for the incorporation of bottom-up activities for English as a foreign language (EFL) listening. It discusses theoretical concepts and pedagogic options for addressing bottom-up aural processing in the EFL classroom as well as how and why teachers may wish to include such activities in lessons. This discussion is augmented by a small-scale classroom-based research project that investigated six activities targeting learners’ bottom-up listening abilities. Learners studying at the lower-intermediate level of a compulsory EFL university course were divided into a treatment group (n = 21) and a contrast group (n = 32). Each group listened to the same audio material and completed listening activities from an assigned textbook. The treatment group also engaged in a set of six bottom-up listening activities using the same material. This quasi-experimental study used dictation and listening proficiency tests before and after the course. Between-group comparisons of t-test results of dictation and listening proficiency tests indicated that improvements for the treatment group were probably due to the BU intervention. In addition, results from a posttreatment survey suggested that learners value explicit bottom-up listening instruction.
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free access
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Prawa autorskie (c) 2016 Joseph Siegel, Aki Siegel
Date:
2015.12.10
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Language:
English
Source:
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching; Vol. 5 No. 4 (2015); 637-662;
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching; Tom 5 Nr 4 (2015); 637-662;
2084-1965;
2083-5205
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt/article/view/4322/4386
Subject:
listening pedagogy;
bottom-up listening activities;
dictation;
listening proficiency
Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt/article/view/4322
Data provider:
Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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