Usefulness of the Pre-listening Stage from the Adult Learner's Perspective
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angličtina
Original language name
Usefulness of the Pre-listening Stage from the Adult Learner's Perspective
Original language description
The pre-listening stage has been an integral part of listening instruction since the beginning of CLT. However, some controversial issues have been recently raised. For example, teachers are sometimes suspected to spend too much time on pre-listening (Field 2008) or the usefulness of pre-viewed comprehension questions in testing listening is challenged (Sherman 1997). Moreover, adult students? listening needs and their perception of listening instruction have not been sufficiently researched (Graham 2006). At the Department of Language Studies at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague, an online survey has been carried out with 374 adult EFL students in order to learn about their opinions, attitudes, and needs regarding learning and teaching listening in the language classroom. The results confirm that pre-listening is considered "definitely useful" by the majority of the students. The most efficient pre-listening techniques are regarded the techniques that focus on le
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D - Article in proceedings
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AI - Linguistics
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I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
ELT: Harmony and Diversity
ISBN
978-1-4438-5506-8
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Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
207-222
Publisher name
Cambridge Scholars
Place of publication
Newcastle
Event location
Ústí nad Labem
Event date
Oct 25, 2012
Type of event by nationality
EUR - Evropská akce
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