Strategies for facilitating listening skills among foreign language learners in US Universities
- Title
- Strategies for facilitating listening skills among foreign language learners in US Universities
- Creator
- Chattaraj D.
- Description
- Developing from the thesis that understanding is the key to any and all meaningful conversation/s, this study focuses on the facilitation of listening skills among foreign language learners. It is conducted with the objective to find out the most effective ways in which an instructor can enable the development of listening skills among the learners of a foreign language. This paper reports the findings of an empirical study which followed a cross-sectional research design and employed a survey method to elicit the data. Twenty-seven Foreign Language Instructors/ Associate Instructors teaching around thirteen different foreign languages across sixteen different universities in the United States of America participated and reported to a survey on effective pre-listening, listening, and post-listening tasks, activities, and strategies which they found to be the most powerful in their respective classrooms. Thirteen of the Seventeen strategies and or/ tasks which were provided in the Strategies for Facilitating Listening (SFL) questionnaire were rated to be highly effective in the facilitation of the development of listening skills among the learners. The paper after discussing the efficacies of the strategies and tasks at hand ends by analyzing the pedagogical implications of the findings. 2020 The authors and IJLTER.ORG. All rights reserved.
- Source
- International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, Vol-19, No. 4, pp. 150-169.
- Date
- 2020-01-01
- Publisher
- Society for Research and Knowledge Management
- Subject
- Comprehension skills; Foreign language teaching; Higher education; Listening skills; Listening strategies
- Coverage
- Chattaraj D., Indiana University Bloomington, United States, Christ (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India
- Rights
- All Open Access; Bronze Open Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 16942116
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Chattaraj D., “Strategies for facilitating listening skills among foreign language learners in US Universities,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 24, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/16373.