John Field Universities of Reading and Cambridge, uk

A long-term process programme must also allow for strategy instruction

• Purpose: to equip the learner short-term to make minimal sense of the input
• Strategy instruction needs to be mainly task-based so that strategies can be used
• a. in combination with each other
• b. in ways that take account of:
• the demands of the problem - the listener’s goals - the listener’s own listening style

References

• Brown, G. Investigating listening comprehension in context. Applied Linguistics 7/3
• Field, J. 1998. Skills and strategies: towards a new methodology for listening. ELT Journal 52/2
• Field, J. 2000. ‘Not waving but drowning’ ELT Journal 54/2
• Field, J. 2008. Listening in the Language Classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

• j.c.field@ reading.ac.uk
• Dr John Field,
• Dept of Applied Linguistics,
• University of Reading,
• Whiteknights,
• Reading RG6 6AA, UK