听力是一项重要的语言技能，听力教学也是外语教学的侧重点之一。而目前对于如何将听力教学与科研结合起来，使之相互促进，并开展具体研究的论述并不多见。《听力教学与研究》正是对这一问题的深入阐述：从多个方面诠释了听力这个领域，视野宽广，回顾了听力教学课程设置与教学方法的基本原则及其特点，对听力教学中的常见问题提出了实用的建议；对可开展听力教学行动研究的十多个领域及其研究框架进行了阐释；汇总了听力教学与研究的各种资源，方便读者参考借鉴。

General Editors' Preface

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: Interests, beliefs and metaphors

Section I Defining listening

Neurological processes

Hearing

Consciousness

Attention

Linguistic processing

Perceiving speech

Recognising words

Employing phonotactic rules

Applying grammatical rules

Managing spoken language

Utilising prosodic features

Integrating non-verbal cues

Pragmatic processing

Inferring speaker intention

Invoking social frames

Listener response

Listener collaboration

Psycholinguistic processing

Comprehension

Knowledge activation

Inference

Memory

Learning

Natural language processing

Speech recognition

Semantic analysis

Listening development and language acquisition

First language (L1) development of perception

L1 contextualised input

L1 cognitive restructuring

L2 acquisition: the role of listening

L2 listening acquisition: comprehensible input

L2 listening development: phonological and

lexical processing

L2 listening development: syntactic processing

L2 listening success or failure: context for learning

Section II Teaching listening

Approaches to teaching listening

Principles of instructional design

Influences from second language learning research

Methods

The historical search for the best method

Anti-methods and post methods

Skills taxonomies

Input

Relevance

Authenticity

Genres

Difficulty

Simplification

Teacher talk

Instructional design

Intensive listening

Selective listening

Interactive listening

Grammar processing

Multimedia

Strategy training

Listening-awareness training

Listening projects

Academic listening

Content-based listening

Self-access listening

.Methods for assessing listening

Types of tests

Specifications

Forms of tests

Factors that influence test performance

Deconstructing tests

Helping students prepare for tests

Oral interview tests

Listening proficiency scales

Testing example: an achievement test

Section III Researching listening

Approaches to researching listening

Purposes for research

Posing questions

Listening research projects

Listening in daily life

Listening and social roles

Pragmatic analysis

Cross-cultural pragmatics

Developing pragmatic competence

Speech processing

Comprehension and memory

Listening in interaction

Benchmarking effective listening

Causes of misunderstanding

Listening to lectures

Strategy training

Materials design and evaluation

Listening journals

Designing a self-access listening centre

Sample action research report

Section IV Exploring listening

Resources and references

Sources of listening material

Teaching resources

Guides for researching listening

Natural language processing research

Glossary

References

Index