Kim, Young-Suk Grace
Published in
Journal of experimental child psychology
Theory of mind has received intensive attention in research as an important skill to develop. Furthermore, recent evidence indicates its role in discourse comprehension. In the current study, we examined the mediating role of theory of mind in the relations of foundational language and cognitive skills (working memory, attentional control, vocabula...
Schiller, Isabel Morsomme, Dominique Kob, Malte Remacle, Angélique
The rational of this study was to assess separate and combined effects of background noise and speaker’s impaired voice quality (i.e. dysphonia) on children’s spoken language processing. Fifty-three 5-6 year-old children individually performed a speech perception task and a listening comprehension task in a 2x2 factorial design with the factors noi...
Chui, Johnny C-H Ma, Estella P-M
Published in
Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
This study investigated the effect of teachers' dysphonic voices on children's listening comprehension. One hundred thirty-four grade three and four students were recruited from local primary schools in Hong Kong. They were required to listen to six passages, three in Cantonese and three in English, which were either read in normal, mildly dysphoni...
Abu Rabia, Salim
Published in
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
The goal of the present study was to investigate the effect of short Arabic vowels on listening comprehension. It is well documented that short vowels affect reading and reading comprehension in Arabic literacy. Since reading comprehension and listening comprehension share many commonalities, it is assumed that short vowels will positively affect l...
Schiller, Isabel Morsomme, Dominique Kob, Malte Remacle, Angélique
Background – Past studies indicate that listening to either impaired voice or against background noise may compromise children’s ability to process spoken language. However, the interaction of both factors remains largely unknown. Aim – The aim of this study was to investigate single and combined effects of impaired speaker’s voice and noise on spo...
Larsson, Samuel Marklund, Felix
This paper aims to study the effect of visual aid in listening comprehension tests for Swedish secondary school pupil. The study also looks at the effects visual aid has for pupils who have difficulty concentrating and lastly to study the effect that previous knowledge has on the pupils’ performance. The study was carried out on 45 economy pupils w...
Namaziandost, Ehsan Hafezian, Mitra Shafiee, Sajad
Published in
Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
This study was intended to investigate the relationship between working memory, anxiety and Iranian EFL learners’ listening comprehension. For the purpose of this study, 60 Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners were selected among 80 students at a private language institute in Hamadan, Iran. They participated in a homogeneity test (Oxford Quick Pla...
Papastergiou, Athanasia Pappas, Vasileios
Published in
Research in developmental disabilities
Do children with visual impairments outperform their sighted cohorts in reading and auditory comprehension tasks? We address this question by applying panel regression techniques on a comprehensive sample of 16 children with visual impairments from a Greek special school for students with visual impairments. By comparing the reader comprehender pro...
Jiang, H. Farquharson, K.
Published in
Reading and Writing
We investigated the extent to which working memory and behavioral attention predicted reading and listening comprehension in grades 1 through 3 and, whether their relative contributions differed by modality and grade. Separate grade samples (N = 370; ns = 125, 123, and 122 for grades 1, 2, and 3 respectively) completed multiple measures of word rea...
Perry, Lynn K. Mech, Emily N. MacDonald, Maryellen C. Seidenberg, Mark S.
Published in
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Unfamiliar speech—spoken in a familiar language but with an accent different from the listener’s—is known to increase comprehension difficulty. However, there is evidence of listeners’ rapid adaptation to unfamiliar accents (although perhaps not to the level of familiar accents). This paradox might emerge from prior focus on isolated word perceptio...
