Academic Listening in a Second Language Context: An Asian Perspective

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  • Lindsay Miller City University of Hong Kong

Keywords:

listening, academic English, higher education, Southeast Asia

Abstract

This paper examines the skill of listening within the context of English as a lingua franca in higher education. It begins with a review of the literature on listening in an academic context with Southeast Asian students in which selected research studies, over the past 30 years, are critiqued. These studies are grouped into four main research approaches: psychometric experiments, discourse analyses studies, identification of listening strategies, and ethnographic investigations. After summarizing this literature, some suggestions are offered as to how this body of research can sensitize us to issues of academic listening in a second language (L2) in Asian higher education contexts. It is hoped this will contribute to the greater understanding of one aspect of the issues associated with using English as a lingua franca.

Author Biography

  • Lindsay Miller, City University of Hong Kong

    Lindsay Miller is an associate professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. He has been responsible for designing, developing and teaching a wide variety of courses in the areas of ESP, specialist courses on listening and speaking proficiency skills and conceptual courses on learner autonomy and critical pedagogy. Dr Miller’s main areas of research focus on self-access language learning, and academic listening. He has co-authored Establishing Self-Access: From Theory To Practice (1999) CUP, with D. Gardner; Second Language Listening: Theory and Practice (2005) CUP, with J. Flowerdew; and Managing Self-Access Language Learning (2014) with D. Gardner, City University Press.

The Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Volume 1. Issue 1. March 2014

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2014-03-28

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014)

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Academic Listening in a Second Language Context: An Asian Perspective. (2014). The Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1(1), 64-75. https://caes.hku.hk/ajal/index.php/ajal/article/view/19