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Bottom-Up or Top-Down Processing as a Discriminator of L2 Listening Performance.

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Tsui, Amy B. M.; Fullilove, John – Applied Linguistics, 1998

This study investigated whether top-down or bottom-up cognitive processing was more important in listening comprehension in large-scale English-as-a-Second-Language tests administered to secondary school students in Hong Kong over a period of seven years. Results suggest that bottom-up processing was more important than top-down processing in…

Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Information Processing