Vol. 5 Issue 7 – Research Paper: ‘Reliability of Second Language Listening Self-Assessments: Implications for Pedagogy’ by Vahid Aryadoust

Language self-appraisal (or self-assessment) is a process by which students evaluate their own language competence. This article describes the relationship between students’ self-appraisals and their performance on a measure of academic listening (AL). Following Aryadoust and Goh (2011), AL was defined as a multi-componential construct including cognitive processing skills, linguistic components and prosody, note-taking, rating input to other materials, knowledge of lecture structure, and memory and concentration.

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Vol. 5 Issue 7 – Video: Teaching Listening: Gist & Detail

Listening skills are not passive! This teacher uses a sentence scramble and a true or false worksheet to encourage active listening of a teacher-made recording. In these ways, both the main ideas and supporting details are elicited.

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