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This chapter explains theories on academic listening and its representative form—academic lecture comprehension. Various theories probing into discourse structure and signaling cues of academic lectures and note-taking are critically reviewed

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Wang, H. (2018). The Theory of Academic Lecture Comprehension. In: Testing Lecture Comprehension Through Listening-to-summarize Cloze Tasks. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6202-5_2

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