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ERIC Number: ED522221
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 5
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 6
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1548-6613
Identifying Information Focuses in Listening Comprehension
Zhang, Hong-yan
Online Submission, US-China Education Review B 1 p53-57 2011
The study explains the process of learners' listening comprehension within Halliday's information theory in functional grammar, including the skills of identifying focuses while listening in college English teaching. Identifying information focuses in listening is proved to improve the students' communicative listening ability by the means of a classroom research, in which 87 students were involved. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Information Theory, Listening Comprehension, College English, Classroom Research, Listening Skills, English Instruction, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, Vocabulary, Syntax, Phonetics, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Foreign Countries, Pretests Posttests
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: China