Abstract Acknowledgements 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 OVERVIEW 1.2 RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE AND RESEARCH NICHE OF THE PRESENT STUDY 1.3 RATIONALE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 1.4 ORGANISATION OF THE BOOK 2 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 2.1 OVERVIEW 2.2 COMPLEX DYNAMIC SYSTEMS THEORY (CDST) AND L2 DEVELOPMENT 2.3 LEARNER INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES (LIDs) IN L2 DEVELOPMENT 2.4 L2 LISTENING DEVELOPMENT 2.5 CHAPTER SUMMARY 3 REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON L2 DEVELOPMENT 3.1 OVERVIEW 3.2 RESEARCH ON L2 DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE CDST FRAMEWORK ......... ......... 7 GENERAL DISCUSSIONS OF THE RESULTS 7.1 OVERVIEW 7.2 THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF LIDs 7.3 CONTRIBUTIONS OF LIDs VARIABLES TO L2 LISTENING DEVELOPMENT 7.4 THE DYANMIC NATURE OF L2 LISTENING DEVELOPMENT 7.5 CHAPTER SUMMARY 8 CONCLUSIONS 8.1 OVERVIEW 8.2 SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS 8.3 CONTRIBUTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE STUDY 8.4 LIMITATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH 8.5 CONCLUSION REFERENCES APPENDICES