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Contextual effects of varying amounts of language-mixed text on translation and comprehension by monolinguals and bilinguals
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Comprehension of multiple channel messages: Are subtitles more beneficial than soundtracks?
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Intermediate bilingual comprehension via target language priming with a short passage of discourse
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“It’s easier to understand”: the effect of a speaker’s accent, visual cues, and background knowledge on listening comprehension
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Master of Science ; Department of Psychology ; Richard J. Harris ; The increasing number of non-native English-speaking instructors in American universities constitutes an issue of controversial debate, concerning the interaction of native English- speaking students and non-native English speaking instructors. This study investigated the effects of native or non-native speakers and audiovisual or audio-only lecture mode on English native speakers’ comprehension and memory for information from a classroom lecture, measuring both factual memory and strength of pragmatic inferences drawn from the text. College students (N = 130) were tested on their comprehension of information derived from basic entomology lectures given by both an English native speaker and an English non-native speaker GTA. Participants also evaluated both lecturers in terms of communication skills. Results indicated that participants evaluated the native speaker as having better communication skills, which is in accordance with previous studies suggesting that both the difficulty of understanding non-native-accented speech (Reddington, 2008) and the possibility of prejudice triggered when listeners hear a non-native accent (Bresnahan et al., 2002) influence listeners’ evaluations of English non-native speaker instructors. Results revealed that familiarity with the topic also played an important role in listening comprehension, especially for lectures given by the non-native speaker. Likewise, the access to visual cues (gestures and facial expressions) enhanced understanding, but it was not a pre-requisite for adequate comprehension when the topic of the lectures did not require visual information. These findings were consistent with the polystemic speech perception approach (Hawkins, 2003), in that it is not essential to recognize all words in text in order to make connections with previous knowledge and construct meaning. Furthermore, overall participants took longer to answer questions from lectures given by the non-native speaker than by the native speaker. This suggests that non-native-accented speech may require more time to answer questions related to that speech, although listeners can adapt to it quickly (Derwing, 1995). Findings from this study are important in suggesting tools for thinking about how different aspects of a lecture can contribute to the learning process. Implications for further research are addressed.
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Cognitive (0633); English native speaker graduate teaching assistant; English non-native speaker graduate teaching assistant; Instructor's accent; Instructor's communication skills; Listening comprehension; Psychology; Visual cues
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4492
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Frequency discrimination and literacy skills in children with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss
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Assessing and accommodating addressees' needs: The role of speakers' prior expectations and addressees' feedback
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Whoever doesn't HOP must be Superior: The Russian left-periphery and the Emergence of Superiority
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Scott, Tatiana. - : The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Dec-12
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Field sensitivity of Native American students at Oregon State University, as determined by the group embedded figures test
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Effects of Traditional Versus Montessori Schooling on 4‐ to 15‐Year Old children's Performance Monitoring
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In: Mind, Brain, and Education
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Brain Regions Underlying Repetition and Comprehension Deficits in Aphasia: Evidence from voxel-based lesion symptom mapping
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Carly Mayberry. - : The University of Queensland, School of Psychology
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