Research related to second language acquisition takes place in several often disparate fields including linguistics, psychology and education. While this has had some influence on the nature of pedagogy and the structure of language textbooks, there are many areas central to teachers experience that remain relatively unexplored. One of these areas is listening comprehension development resulting from direct interaction with native speech.
This book explores this development by focusing on the relation of subject and object relatives to working memory. In a classroom study of Asian learners...