Perception of English listeners

The objectives of this study are first to gain some insight into the difficulties faced by 80 English-majored students at Dong Nai Technology University when it comes to listening comprehension. Accordingly, it examines their perspectives on the exposure of audio scripts at the stage of while listening. Questionnaires and interviews were employed as tools for gathering essential data.

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The study "The difficulties encountered by ESL/EFL students in listening comprehension" aims to highlight a number of main listening difficulties encountered by ESL/ EFL students in listening comprehension. The results showed that students faced these difficulties during the three stages of listening: perception, parsing, and utilization.

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The study aims at investigating the first-year English majored students’perceptions of using video based learning and their practices in learning English listening skills at Faculty of English, Hanoi Open University. A quantitative research has been employed in this study.

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This study is an attempt to reveal the non-major English students’ perception of the role of English listening skills and find out the difficulties that they frequently face while learning English listening comprehension; apart from that, some solutions are suggested. Mixed methods are used to conduct this study.

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Chapter 19 - Presenting insights and findings: Written reports. After studying this chapter you will be able to understand: That a quality presentation of research findings can have an inordinate effect on a reader’s or a listener’s perceptions of a study’s quality; the contents, types, lengths, and technical specifications of research reports; that the writer of a research report should be guided by questions of purpose, readership, circumstances/limitations, and use.

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For more than 60 years, this text has led the way in preparing students for a lifetime of listening to great music and understanding its cultural and historical context. The Thirteenth Edition builds on this foundation with new coverage of performance and musical style. New tools help students share their deepening listening skills and appreciation in writing and conversation.

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The aim of the research for this thesis is to develop objective measurement techniques that relate to the perceived subjective functional performance of critical listening rooms. It is also hoped that the research will lead to an increased understanding of the role of the individual listener in respect to their preferred room acoustical configuration.

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This article presents the results of a study on English majors’ perceptions of the use of listening tasks designed based on the American sitcom “Friends” for self-study. A total of 54 second-year undergraduates majoring in English Language Teaching (ELT) at Quy Nhon University were involved in the study.

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This paper reports a study on high school EFL students’ perceptions of scaffolding learning activities in learning listening skills. The study was conducted at a high school in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, and it involved a cohort of 120 students in grade 10 who partook in answering the questionnaires.

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The study "How bottom-up approach should be appropriately applied for begginers’ listening enhancement" is aimed at: experimenting and investigating the effects of using bottom-up techniques in teaching listening to begginer; investigating the learners’ perceptions regarding listening activities using bottom-up listening strategies; formulating pedagogical implications and making suggestions for improving listening skills.

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The purpose of this research is to investigate students’ perceptions about the factors that affected their choice of TED Talks as an extensive listening resource outside classroom, to assess if they can improve their listening abilities by using TED materials, and to investigate whether or not they think this strategy is beneficial for other aspects of English language learning.

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Currently, Vietnamese non-English majored students in tertiary education find themselves struggling with English listening skills and rather confused about searching suitable ways to enhance their listening abilities. This study applied a quasi-experimental design to investigate the EFL students' perceptions and the effects of mobile applications on their listening improvement.

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This study investigated into how English listeners from Midland U.S. perceived Vietnamese back vowels contrasting in rounding. The words were produced by Northern and Central Vietnamese speakers. The results showed that Vietnamese vowels [o] and [u] was assimilated to English [oʊ] (77%) and [u] (69%) respectively. [ɤ] and [ɯ] were not assimilated to any English vowels.

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This research investigated the perceptions of English majors at Ho Chi Minh City Open University of the use of ICT by their teachers in their Listening-Speaking classes. Twenty-eight out of about 700 freshmen and sophomores who were studying the subject taught by nine different teachers volunteered to participate in semi-structured interviews.

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This paper examined EFL teachers’ perceptions and reality of an implementation of pre-listening activities in English classes at Quoc Hoc Hue high school. The study involved 10 teachers of English department of Quoc Hoc high school.

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This study investigated the perceptions of EFL students at University of Foreign Languages, Hue University, about the use of the Moodle Quiz in listening tests and the benefits as well as problems they had when taking Moodle-based listening quizzes. A mixed method was adopted to collect data from 73 first-year English majors.

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Despite widespread evidence that gender stereotypes influence human parental behavior, their potential effects on adults’ perception of babies’ cries have been overlooked. In particular, whether adult listeners overgeneralize the sex dimorphism that characterizes the voice of adult speakers (men are lower-pitched than women) to their perception of babies’ cries has not been investigated.

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Local anesthesia forms the backbone of pain control techniques and is necessary for a painless dental procedure. Nevertheless, administering a local anesthetic injection is among the most anxiety-provoking procedures to children. This study was performed to compare the efficacy of different distraction techniques (passive, active, and passive-active) on children’s pain perception during local anesthesia administration.

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Faculty of Dentistry of the University of Hong Kong has introduced innovative blended problem-based learning (PBL) with the aid of 3D electronic models (e-models) to Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) curriculum. Statistical results of pre- and post-semester questionnaire surveys illustrated compatibility of e-models in PBL settings. The students’ importance ratings of two objectives “Complete assigned tasks on time” and “Active listener”, and twenty-two facilitator evaluation items including critical thinking and group problemsolving skills had increased significantly.

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Listening comprehension is an important skill to develop in second language education. However, little attention has been paid to this skill in English language teaching and learning at Quy Nhon University. Of particular interest of this paper, therefore, is to explore how non-English majors at Quy Nhon University perceive listening comprehension in English in order to propose practical recommendations for successfully improving their listening comprehension performance.

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