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ELT Journal 2003 57(4):335-343; doi:10.1093/elt/57.4.335
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Discovery listening—improving perceptual processing

Magnus Wilson1

1 Edinburgh University, studying Chinese. Email: magnus.wilson{at}ed.ac.uk

Current approaches to teaching listening have tended to emphasize listening for gist, top-down processing, and listening strategies. These basically focus on teaching students how to cope with authentic language and real-life situations, as part of the communicative approach. Bottom-up approaches that focus on word recognition, on the other hand, have been comparatively undervalued. This article therefore describes a technique based on the notion of ‘bottom-up primacy’ that is nevertheless compatible with current learner-centred, task-based teaching. It makes a case for ‘noticing’ as a method of improving listening ability by getting students to discover and then prioritize their own listening difficulties after reconstructing a text.

Received May 2002.


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