Furthering the argument for visually inclusive L2 academic listening tests: The role of content-rich videos

2022 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 101087
Author(s):  
Roman O. Lesnov
Keyword(s):  
Listening Tests

scholarly journals El uso del vídeo en tests de comprensión oral por internet

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Pardo-Ballester
Keyword(s):  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Multimedia Technology ◽  
Listening Tests ◽  
Midwestern University ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Support Device ◽  
Visual Aid ◽  
L2 Listening ◽  
The Relationship

<p class="AbstractText">With sophisticated multimedia technology, there is a renewed interest in the relationship between visual and auditory channels in assessing listening comprehension (LC). Research on the use of visuals in assessing listening has emerged with inconclusive results. Some learners perform better on tests which include visual input (Wagner, 2007) while others have found no difference in the performance of participants on the two test formats (Batty, 2015). These mixed results make it necessary to examine the role of using audio and video in LC as measured by L2 listening tests. The current study examined the effects of two different types of listening support on L2 learners’ comprehension: (a) visual aid in a video with input modified with redundancy and (b) no visuals (audio-only input) with input modified with redundancy. The participants of this study included 246 Spanish students enrolled in two different intermediate Spanish courses at a large Midwestern university who participated in four listening tasks either with video or with audio. Findings of whether the video serves as a listening support device and whether the course formats differ on intermediate-level Spanish learners’ comprehension will be shared as well as participants’ preferences with respect to listening support.</p>

scholarly journals A longitudinal study on language learning vocabulary in L2 Spanish

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Pardo-Ballester
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Hybrid Courses ◽  
Input Modality ◽  
Blended Courses ◽  
Test Formats ◽  
Listening Tests ◽  
Video Format

Some learners perform better on listening tests that include visual input instead of only audio (Wagner, 2008) while others have found no difference in the performance of participants in the two test formats (Batty, 2015). These mixed results make it necessary to examine the role of using audio and video in listening comprehension (LC). This study examines the effect of input modality on the learning of new vocabulary with intermediate L2 learners. The study gave four versions of the same text: a baseline in audio format, a baseline in video format, a redundancy-enhanced version in audio format and a redundancy-enhanced version in video format. Three hundred sixty two intermediate learners of Spanish participated in this study over a period of three consecutive semesters. Results about input modality indicated audio or video does not seem to matter in responding correctly to the vocabulary items. However, the redundancy-enhanced version in audio and video formats helped learners to respond correctly to vocabulary items when enrolled in face2face-blended courses compared to online-hybrid courses.

Improving Audio Spatialization Using Customizable Pinna Based Anthropometric Model of Head-Related Transfer Functions

2012 ◽  
pp. 81-100
Author(s):  
Navarun Gupta ◽  
Armando Barreto
Keyword(s):  
Structural Model ◽  
Transfer Functions ◽  
Structural Models ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
Sound Sources ◽  
Predictive Equations ◽  
Listening Tests ◽  
Anthropometric Features

The role of binaural and immersive sound is becoming crucial in virtual reality and HCI related systems. This chapter proposes a structural model for the pinna, to be used as a block within structural models for the synthesis of Head-Related Transfer Functions, needed for digital audio spatialization. An anthropometrically plausible pinna model is presented, justified and verified by comparison with measured Head-Related Impulse Responses (HRIRs). Similarity levels better than 90% are found in this comparison. Further, the relationships between key anthropometric features of the listener and the parameters of the model are established, as sets of predictive equations. Modeled HRIRs are obtained substituting anthropometric features measured from 10 volunteers into the predictive equations to find the model parameters. These modeled HRIRs are used in listening tests by the subjects to assess the elevation of spatialized sound sources. The modeled HRIRs yielded a smaller average elevation error (29.9o) than “generic” HRIRs (31.4o), but higher than the individually measured HRIRs for the subjects (23.7o).

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF MOTIVATION, STRATEGY USE AND SECOND LANGUAGE APTITUDE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LISTENING SKILLS BY ADULT CHINESE LEARNERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Strong Predictor ◽  
Strategy Use ◽  
First Year ◽  
Bilingual Students ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Listening Tests ◽  
Chinese Learners ◽  
Motivation Strategy

This research has investigated the associations among strategy use, language learning aptitude and motivation and their impact on predicting the development of listening skills of Spanish-Catalan bilingual beginner learners studying Chinese. The participants were 13 Spanish-Catalan bilingual students majoring in International Business and Tourism in a school in Barcelona, taking Chinese as an optional language course for their first year of study. All of them were raised in Catalonia speaking Catalan and Spanish, except for one student originally from Morocco. In addition, all of them had an intermediate level of English (CEFR: B1-B2). The experiment consisted of a motivation questionnaire, Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL), LLAMA_D, a pre-test and three post-tests (i.e. listening tests) in each month during the 3 month research period. The collected data was analysed through the Spearman correlation coefficient and the results of the effects on Chinese listening gains display that motivation was found to be a strong predictor of the development of Chinese listening gains. Strategy use has a significant positive effect, but the very strong correlation was only found in the first stages, the effect decreased later on. Instead, language learning aptitude had a non-significant effect as measured by LLAMA_D. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0740/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Role of dactinomycin in the improved survival of children with Wilms' tumor

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor

Role of the allergist in diagnosis and management of patients with uveitis

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Van Metre
Keyword(s):  
Diagnosis And Management

The power of norms to sway fused group members

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnifred R. Louis ◽  
Craig McGarty ◽  
Emma F. Thomas ◽  
Catherine E. Amiot ◽  
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Identity Fusion ◽  
Group Members

AbstractWhitehouse adapts insights from evolutionary anthropology to interpret extreme self-sacrifice through the concept of identity fusion. The model neglects the role of normative systems in shaping behaviors, especially in relation to violent extremism. In peaceful groups, increasing fusion will actually decrease extremism. Groups collectively appraise threats and opportunities, actively debate action options, and rarely choose violence toward self or others.

Elaborating the role of reflection and individual differences in the study of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Arceneaux
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Beliefs

AbstractIntuitions guide decision-making, and looking to the evolutionary history of humans illuminates why some behavioral responses are more intuitive than others. Yet a place remains for cognitive processes to second-guess intuitive responses – that is, to be reflective – and individual differences abound in automatic, intuitive processing as well.

The role of affect in feelings of obligation

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefen Beeler-Duden ◽  
Meltem Yucel ◽  
Amrisha Vaish
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Sense Of Obligation

Abstract Tomasello offers a compelling account of the emergence of humans’ sense of obligation. We suggest that more needs to be said about the role of affect in the creation of obligations. We also argue that positive emotions such as gratitude evolved to encourage individuals to fulfill cooperative obligations without the negative quality that Tomasello proposes is inherent in obligations.

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