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Sources for listening teachers

Over the years a lot of work has been done in the field of listening and what follows is by no means a complete list. Furthermore their inclusion here in no way indicates an endorsement of any products or ideas on this site. Rather they are listed here as a reference to teachers and in recognition of their influence on education and the teaching of listening:

Teaching Listening

Brown, H.D. (2001), Teaching by Principles, An Interactive Approach to Languge Pedagogy, New York: Addison Wesley Longman

Buck, Gary, (2001), Assessing Listening, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Celce-Murcia, (1996), Teaching Pronunciation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Morley, Joan, (2001), "Aural comprehension instruction: principles and practices", in Marianne Celce-Murcia (ed.), Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, 3rd Edition, Boston: Heinle & Heinle

Ur, Penny, (1984), Teaching Listening Comprehension, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Underhill, Adrian, (1984), Sound Foundations, Oxford: Macmillan Heinemann

Peterson, P., (1991) "A Synthesis of methods for interactive listening", in M. Celce-Murcia, (ed), Teaching English as a Second or Foriegn Language, 2nd edition (ppp.106-122), New York: Newbury House

Explicit Language Teaching

Lightbrown Patsy & Spada, (1999), How Languages are Learned, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Schmidt, Richard, (1995), "Consciousness and foreign language learning: a tutorial on the role of attention and awareness in learning" in Richard Schmidt, (ed.) Attention and Awareness in Foreign Language Learning, (Technical Report #9) Honolulu: University of Hawaii Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center.

Strategies

Oxford, Rebecca, (1990), Language Learning Strategies, Boston: Heinle & Heinle

Communicative Competence

Canale, Michael & Swain Merril, (1980) "Theoretical bases of communicative approaches to second language teaching and testing", Applied Linguistics, Vol. 1, No. 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Canale, Michael, (1983), "From communicative competence to communicative language pedagogy", in J.C. Richards and R.W. Schmidt (eds.) Language and Communication, London: Longman

   

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