Listening Comprehension

Jian Xu

Chinese University Students’ Test-taking Motivation, Metacognitive Awareness, and Test Performance in EFL Listening

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

This book builds on the expectancy-value of test taking motivation framework, going beyond merely ascertaining whether test taking motivation-related variables have direct effects on listening test performance as measured by listening test score in College English Band 4 (CET-4) listening testing context in China. Rather, what is of great interest is to determine how such effects, both directly and indirectly, come to be, and to describe the […]

Anna Barnau / Božena Džuganová

English for Health Care Professionals

Didaktik in Forschung und Praxis

The book English for Health Care Professionals is intended primarily for students of Biology and Medicine, teachers of English for Specific Purposes, and health care professionals. Suggestions of exercises and tasks to improve listening as well as reading comprehension are given for classes, small groups and self-studying individuals. The volume combines theoretical approaches and didactic-methodologically based exercises and tasks developed […]

Anna Barnau / Bozena Dzuganova / Nora Malinovska

Effective English Language Teaching Through Videos

Theory and Praxis

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

This book is intended primarily for teachers of English, students of Biology and Medicine and health care professionals. Suggestions of exercises and tasks to improve listening comprehension are given for classes, small groups as well as for individualized self-study using a PC with Internet access in the classroom or at home.

The volume combines theoretical approaches and didactic-methodologically based exercises and tasks […]