Aponte-de-Hanna, C. (2012). Listening strategies in the L2 classroom: more practice, less testing. College Quarterly 15 (1).
This article focuses on the needs for developing L2 learners' listening skills and provides some strategies in point form as to how L2 teachers can use to enhance listening skills as an active process in the acquisition of new languages. I have found it interesting that, in the history of Language Teaching, listening has been seen as a passive form of skill, as opposed to writing, reading, and speaking, that were seen as procedural and declarative knowledge in a second, or, foreign, language. It is also interesting the idea that students acquire listening skills through osmosis - do they? Perhaps they do! I have found in my practica experience that students do well in listening, while they could at the same time lag behind in the three other skills in new language mastery. It is useful to have an awareness, as teachers of languages, of the importance of developing students' "metastrategic awareness" with which they expand their autonomy as language learners.
