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Quinn, Terence; Wheeler, James – 1975
This paper suggests that language teachers reconsider their approach to listening comprehension, as recent studies seem to indicate that listening is not a passive but a highly active skill. The importance of listening comprehension as an independent skill is stressed in the first section, and principles of speech processing from which the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Instruction, Language Skills, Listening Comprehension