Preface This book is a version of Le Chang's thesis, which he successfully completed in 2012 in the University of Auckland. The thesis examines the teaching of listening to Chinese university students. In general “listening”has been viewed as a skill that is taught by means of various listening comprehension activities. A key feature of Chang's book is that in addition to treating listening in this way he also views it as a medium for developing linguistic competence. Thus he investigates both listening comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. He was able to show that students can learn new vocabulary incidentally as a result of performing listening tasks. The book also explores the role of metacognitive awareness in listening comprehension. Current research places great store on differe…