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KMID : 0366519970170010283
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Annual Bulletin Seoul Health
1997 Volume.17 No. 1 p.283 ~ p.294
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English Listening Comprehension in Foreign Language Instruction for the Improvement of Communicative Functions
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Chung Hye-Jin
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Abstract
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Until recently the skill of listening comprehension had been the most neglected of the four language skills in English education, and relatively little research had been carried out in the areas of classroom materials and teaching strategies for listening comprehension. A major catalyst for the relatively recent and intense interest in listening comprehension research has been the realization and accumulating evidence that input plays a critical role in language acquisition and listening skills have the largest positive transference to the other language skills, This paper reviews research on the nature, process and role of listening comprehension and discusses some pedagogical aspects of English listening comprehension. Current theories and empirical research studies stress the cognitive, affective and utilitarian advantages of delaying oral exercise and increasing listening practice in the early stages of learning, Therefore, to provide learners with a large amount of comprehensible input is crucial in foreign language acquisition. Since listening comprehension is a complex process involving knowledge of the phonology, syntax, lexicon, culture of the target language, and auditory memory, a checklist of aural microskills is useful in helping learners to acquire effective interactive listening strategies. Classroom listening materials and activities should be designed to incorporate the two main purposes of communication-a transactional purpose and an interactional purpose-as well as the two different types of information processes-top-down listening and bottom-up listening.
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KEYWORD
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English listening comprehension
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