Academic Listening

• List of contributors; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction John Flowerdew; Part I. Background: 1. Research of relevance to second language lecture comprehension - an overview John Flowerdew; Part II. The Second Language Academic Listening Process: 2. Expectation-driven understanding in information systems lecture comprehension Steve Tauroza and Desmond Allison; 3. The effects of rhetorical signaling cues on the recall of English lecture information by speakers of English as a native or second language Patricia A. Dunkel and James N. Davis; 4. Second language listening comprehension note-taking Craig Chaudron, Lester Loschky and Janice Cook; 5. On-line summaries as representations of lecture understanding Michael Rost; Part III. Discourse of Academic Lectures: 6. Topic identification in lecture discourse Christa Hansen; 7. Variations in the discourse patterns favoured by different disciplines and their pedagogical implications Tony Dudley-Evans; 8. University lectures - macro-structures and micro-features Lynne Young; Part IV. Ethnography of Second Language Lectures: 9. Lecture listening in an ethnographic perspective Malcolm J. Benson; 10. By dint of: student and lecturer perceptions of lecture comprehension strategies in first-term graduate study Abelle Mason; 11. Visual and verbal messages in the engineering lecture: notetaking by postgraduate L2 students Philip King; Part V. Pedagogic Applications: 12. Evaluating lecture comprehension Christa Hansen and Christine Jensen; 13. Training lecturers for international audiences Tony Lynch; Conclusion John Flowerdew; Index.

'Academic Listening is an outstanding resource for researchers and teachers interested in L2 lecture comprehension. Flowerdew has clearly accomplished what he set out to do: "fill the gap" in the EAP literature with an up-to-date collection of studies which examine important issues in L2 listening comprehension from a variety of research perspectives.' English for Specific Purposes, 1997