This book is relevant for language testers, listening researchers, and oral proficiency teachers, in that it explores four broad themes related to the assessment of L2 listening ability: the use of authentic, real-world spoken texts; the effects of different speech varieties of listening inputs;… read more
This chapter examines how L2 listening ability has been modeled and operationalized in the research literature, and provides a critical overview of the dominant models. It also describes how researchers have used both taxonomies of listening skills as well as data-driven approaches to creating… read more
This chapter explores interactions among American high school learners of L2 Spanish during three lessons on the pronominal clitic se which were designed to promote grammatical consciousness-raising through guided induction. Following Adair-Hauck, Donato, and Cumo-Johanssen (2010), each lesson… read more