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Practitioners respond to Suzanne Graham's ‘Research into practice: Listening strategies in an instructed classroom setting’. (2017)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2020

Emily Haslett*
Affiliation:
Second language teacher, Northern Arizona University, USA

Extract

With a certain tone of concern, Suzanne Graham's article presents readers with a series of perceived problems related to current methods of teaching listening skills in the second language classroom. The general explanation behind these observations is the author's perception that language teachers’ practices do not ‘reflect current thinking from the research strategy literature’ (p. 108). Graham argues that research findings on the benefits of explicit strategy instruction are not being utilized in the classroom and that the research-based pedagogical approaches that are being used are often over-applied.

Type
Pedagogical Implications
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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