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Assessing L2 Listening: Moving towards authenticity
Gary J. Ockey and Elvis Wagner
[Language Learning & Language Teaching 50] 2018
► pp. 98–112

Chapter 7
Listening to an unfamiliar accent

Exploring difficulty, strategy use, and evidence of adaptation on listening assessment tasks

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Article outline
  • Methodology
    • Test materials
    • Speakers
    • Listeners
    • Approach and procedures
    • Data analysis
  • Results
    • Extent of PAIREs for unfamiliar and familiar accents
    • The nature of listening difficulty reported in PAIREs
      • General intelligibility
      • Input decoding
      • Word recognition/segmentation
      • Distraction/wrong-footing
    • Strategy use
      • Directed attention
      • Selective attention
      • Comprehension monitoring
      • Inferencing
    • Evidence of adaptation
  • Discussion
    • Summary and implications
    • Limitations and future research
  • Note
  • Acknowledgements
Published online: 8 August 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.50.07har
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