As Nichols served as a catalyst for the systematic study of listening as a core
communicative competency, the ideas generated by the KCF and the Frankfurt
convention have the potential to maintain this fervency. In the past decade, listening
research has waned from its prominence during the 1970s and 1980s. The future of
listening research and theory building is bright, and their advancement begins with a
sincere desire to question what we know and how we know it. Table 1 provides a
summary of general questions stemming from the above initiatives.