A good listening climate, reciprocal planning for oral and aural comprehension, analysis of the purpose and method in which the task is executed, will all provide some beginning points for the serious teacher who wants to build listening comprehension on the strengths of skills operating since birth. (Author/NQ)

An experiment is reported in which 25 listeners were presented with pairs of stimuli of equal duration, but differing in fundamental frequency, and were asked to decide which of the two stimuli was longer. (Author/RM)

Compares the ways native and non-native speakers listen to English. Results indicated that native speakers could bias their listening from context but that non-native speakers could not. (CB)

Recent developments in cognitive science are assessed as challenge to well established view in philosophy of linguistics that meaning is inherent to language and is relatively fixed. Information provided by words and sentences, language comprehension, constructions of interpretations (not meanings), and arguments against relativism are discussed.…

Outlines strategies for teaching listening comprehension which can be adapted to foreign language programs. The initial stage is to make the students aware of the skill of listening for comprehension. Then follows strategies that demand purposeful reactions from the students, including instruction activities, command activities, personal-choice…

Maintains that massive amounts of authentic input is the only way to approach listening comprehension in a foreign language classroom. Suggests listening exercises designed to enhance students' expectancy and to teach them to extract high-information items from a natural and redundant environment. (SED)

Discusses the practical aspects of listening comprehension exercises, focusing on sources for material such as: the teachers; other speakers; recordings of radio broadcasts, music, speeches, etc.; films and television programs; and commercially produced language lab films. (EKN)

Auditory information processing, or listening in oral discourse, can be carried out in various ways since its underlying goals are not per se clearly defined and depend on the listening context. A strategy is a global representation of the means of reaching a goal. The concern of the current study was placed on the strategy level rather than on…

Specific proposals for improving listening skills. (CH)

As a group, the language impaired children demonstrated deficits in comprehension when compared to the normal language children. However, both groups scored near the ceiling on several tests, and on most tests that did differentiate the two groups, the mean scores of both groups were above the norms. (Author)

A sequential program in listening is just as important as a sequential program in reading. (DD)

Describes the value of active listening, a system of paraphrasing, for the news reporter, feature and magazine writer, advertising writer, and public relations specialist. (KS)

Describes a taxonomy of real-world listening tasks as a conceptual framework for teaching listening in a second language, and discusses the implications of the taxonomy for the design of listening instruction and the selection of authentic texts. The key elements of the taxonomy are listener function and listener response. (26 references)…