The developmental trajectory of second language listening: errors, processes and change in the understanding of beginner learners of French

Thesis

This thesis aims to provide an alternative view on how students learn to listen. Most research in this area takes a cross-sectional approach in order to demonstrate factors which might influence listening proficiency at a given time point, but this ‘snapshot’ cannot tell us what might have come before, or what might come after. This means that little is known about how a group’s or an individual’s listening proficiency might develop over time, and the relative importance of different facto...

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Authors: Simpson, K

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-pd9kd6gqj
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: learning; development; secondary school; MFL; input-poor environment; FLE; paused transcription; Complexity Theory; L2 listening; L2; CDST; français langue étrangère; French; Second language acquisition; second language listening
• Subjects: Complex Dynamic Systems Theory; Education, Secondary; Language arts (Secondary); L2 listening; second language listening; Second language acquisition; French; Education; input-poor environments; learning French