Expertise Reversal Effect and Teaching French as a Foreign Language Listening Skills (Experiment 4)

The chapter describes the fourth experiment in details, which is about investigating the expertise reversal effect in teaching French listening skills to low expertise learners who had limited years of foreign language learning experience in three instructional conditions: the read-only, the listen-only, and the read-and-listen. It starts with the research methods, followed by the presentation of the results. The chapter ends with a general discussion of the research findings within the framework of cognitive load theory and foreign language learning theories.