Language and school success: Access to meaning

King, Martha

doi:10.1080/00405848409543111

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“…Limited knowledge of all these aspects by the listener might lead to difficulties in grasping the right meaning. For example, King (1984) argues that listening not only requires hearing, but it widely depends on the amount of information and meaning which both speaker and listener must share. Likewise, Harris (2003) states that to make inferences and de-termine the speaker's implied meaning, listeners use pragmatic knowledge, which is often culturally bound.…”

Section: Inability To Understand What They Have Listened Tomentioning

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Listening Difficulties among Non-Native Speakers of Arabic

Al-Busaidi

2012

J. educ. psychol. stud.

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This qualitative study analyzed the listening difficulties of 19 students learning Arabic as a foreign language in the Sultanate of Oman from a social-constructivist perspective. Analysis of the data obtained from interviews and students' diaries has indicated that learners experienced five listening difficulties that occurred either in the classroom setting, in their real-life conversation with Omanis or while listening to TV and radio programs. It was found that their listening difficulties were related to speed of speech, quickly forgetting what was heard, missing the next part when thinking about meaning, the inability to understand what they had heard and inability to match the sound of the word with what they already know.This paper also investigates and analyzes the causes of listening problems. The most frequent difficulties seemed to result from the lack of opportunities to practice Arabic. It has been also found that cultural differences have a strong relationship to listening comprehension problems.

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Section: Inability To Understand What They Have Listened Tomentioning

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Listening Difficulties among Non-Native Speakers of Arabic

Al-Busaidi

2012

J. educ. psychol. stud.

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Human development, language, and communication: Then and now

Galloway

1986

Theory Into Practice

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Oral Communication Apprehension Among Adult Learners: A Factor To Be Considered In Adult Basic Education

Conner

Williams

1987

Adult Education Quarterly

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Researchers have consistently described certain individuals who avoid interaction which requires oral communication with other people. The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether or not oral communication apprehension was related to the employment status of student enrolled in Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs. Results of this investigation indicate the relationship is positive. Unemployed adults enrolled in ABE demonstrated greater reticence to talk on a measure of oral communication apprehension than did employed ABE students. Programs designed to maximize the oral communicative confidence and skill of ABE students should be considered in order to enhance the employment potential of the adult learner.

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Language and school success: Access to meaning

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Listening Difficulties among Non-Native Speakers of Arabic

Listening Difficulties among Non-Native Speakers of Arabic

Human development, language, and communication: Then and now

Oral Communication Apprehension Among Adult Learners: A Factor To Be Considered In Adult Basic Education

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