Contents: -

Part I Background

1. Listening then and now

2. The comprehension approach: Pluses and minuses

Part II Rethinking the comprehension approach

3. Listening and the learner

4. Types of listening

Part III process, not product

5. A diagnostic approach to L2 listening

6. Dividing listening into its components

7. A process approach

Part IV A process view of listening

8. input and context

9. Decoding and the inconsistent signal

10. Decoding: sounds, syllables and words

11 Using grammar and intonation

12. Amplifying what the speaker says

13 Handling information

Part V The challenge of the real world

14. Real speech

15. Listerning strategies

16. Strategy instruction in second language listening

Part VI conclusion


Part VI Conclusion

17. Fitting it together