Chapter One Introduction
1.1 English Teaching as a Foreign Language in Chinese Universities
1.2 Place of Listening Instruction in College English Courses in China
1.3 Theoretical Issues Addressed in the Book
1.3.1 Listening Comprehension
1.3.2 Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition
1.3.3 Metacognitive Listening Awareness
1.3.4 Relationships among the Three Constructs
1.4 Aims of the Thesis
1.5 Summary of the Contents of Each Chapter
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Listening Comprehension
2.2.1 Listening Comprehension and Listening Processes
2.2.2 Factors Affecting Listening Comprehension
2.2.3 Listening Strategies
2.3 Metacognition and Metacognitive Listening
2.3.1 Metacognition
2.3.2 Metacognitive Listening Awareness and Strategies
2.4 Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition
2.4.1 Definition of Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition
2.4.2 Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition through Listening
2.4.3 Assessing Vocabulary Knowledge from Incidental
Vocabulary Acquisition
2.5 Summary of the Literature Review
Chapter Three Pilot Study
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Research Questions of the Study
3.3 Participants
3.4 Design of the Study
3.5 Materials
3.5.1 Questionnaire
3.5.2 Listening Tasks
3.5.3 Vocabulary Tests
3.6 Schedule and Procedures of the Study
3.7 Data Collection and Description
3.7.1 Methods Used to Collect and Analyze the Data
3.7.2 Descriptive Statistics
3.8 Results
3.8.1 The Correlational Study
3.8.2 The Experimental Study
3.9 Discussion
3.10 Problems and Solutions
Chapter Four Methodology
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Research Questions
4.3 Research Design
4.4 Participants
4.5 Instruments
4.5.1 Listening Tasks
