Narrow Listening: an alternative way to develop and enhance listening comprehension in students of French as a foreign language  

Oleh:

Dupuy, B.C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: SYSTEM: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 27 no. 3 (Sep. 1999), page 351-361.
Topik: Narrow Listening; Listening comprehension; French
Fulltext: Dupuy_B.C.pdf (121.95KB)

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Evidence shows that aural comprehensible input plays a critical role in the early stages of language acquisition. While uncontrolled casual conversations may be too dicult for begin- ning and intermediate foreign language students to comprehend, Narrow Listening, the re- peated listening of several brief tape-recorded interviews of pro®cient speakers discussing a topic both familiar and interesting to the acquirers, o?ers them a valuable and rewarding alternative. In the present study, a survey of beginning and intermediate college French as a foreign language students' reactions to Narrow Listening and their assessment of its impact on their language development was conducted. Results indicate that students found Narrow Listening to be interesting, very helpful in improving listening comprehension, ¯uency, and vocabulary, and in increasing their con®dence with French.

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