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Janusik, Laura Ann. "Researching listening from the inside out the relationship between conversational listening span and perceived communicative competence /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1417.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.Thesis research directed by: Communication. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Mottaghinejad, Sarah Elizabeth. "Evaluating the Usefulness of an Aural Gapped Listening Summary as a Measure of Academic Listening Proficiency." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2210.
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For this project I sought to find a more effective means of evaluating academic listening comprehension. This involved doing an in-depth investigation of academic listening, the constructs involved in listening comprehension, and of methods of assessing listening comprehension. It also included a study of the concept of test usefulness (Bachman and Palmer, 1996), which consists of reliability, construct validity, authenticity, interactiveness, impact, and practicality, and is used to help select the most effective methods of assessing language abilities. Based on my review of listening comprehension testing methods, I created a method of assessing academic listening comprehension, Aural Gapped Listening Summaries (AGLS), produced a short version of the AGLS for piloting through BYU's English Language Center and credit exam for matriculated students, and then analyzed the results of this piloting to determine whether future investigation was merited. This project write-up includes a description of the development of the AGLS, the methods of administration, and students' cursory perceptions of the AGLS, as well as the results of the pilot test. The AGLS involved students listening to an excerpt of a lecture followed by an aural summary of that lecture with every 8th word replaced by low-volume static. Then they were asked to type a word or phrase in a box on their computer screens that would best fill in the gap where the static was. Ranks on the AGLS were correlated with a standard listening test, which is administered every semester at Brigham Young University, and with students' individual perceptions of their listening abilities. Results showed that AGLS correlates moderately well with traditional measures of academic listening (r=0.7731) while giving testers interesting information about student interlanguage in very little time. Results further showed that AGLS has a much higher reliability coefficient (r=0.9223) in comparison to the other listening test. Therefore, although traditionally testers have had to write lengthy tests in order to get an adequate representation of students' listening abilities, it may be possible to obtain the necessary information about students' abilities with this more time-efficient measurement tool.
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Fujita, Masahiro. "Developing listening comprehension competence in Japanese English as a Foreign Language Learners." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2150.
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The purpose of this project is to investigate a model for developing listening comprehension competence on the part of Japanese learners of english as a foreign language, with a view toward promoting practical and communicative english competence.
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Різниченко, А. В. "Some aspects of teaching listening skills." Thesis, ХНУ ім. В. Н. Каразіна, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/60047.
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The article looks at some aspects of teaching listening skills. It focuses on the principles that apply in teaching listening and on the effective ways for students to develop stronger listening skills.У статті розглядаються деякі аспекти викладання навичок аудіювання. Вона фокусується на принципах, які застосовуються при навчанні аудіюванню, а також на ефективних способах розвитку даних навичок.
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Gilligan, Philip A., and Shamim Akhtar. "Cultural barriers to the disclosure of child sexual abuse in Asian communities: Listening to what women say." Oxford University Press, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2718.
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NoThere is apparent under-reporting of child sexual abuse in Britain¿s Asian communities and a varied capacity amongst professionals to respond with cultural competence. Professional approaches originate in cultural contexts, which are often different from those of most British Asians. If the proportion of children and non-abusing carers from Asian communities who access relevant services is to increase, professionals need to develop better understandings of cultural imperatives which determine behaviour in those communities. Consultations with Asian women in Bradford reinforce the view that culturally competent practice and respectful dialogue are essential to the protection of children. They also highlight a number of recurring themes. Members of Asian communities are aware of child sexual abuse, they recognize that the issue needs to be addressed by all communities and they report that many of those affected within their own communities have found it difficult to access relevant services. These consultations, like reports of similar work elsewhere, indicate that difficulties, which appear to arise from Asian women¿s fears about how agencies will respond, are frequently compounded by the impact of cultural imperatives arising from izzat (honour/respect), haya (modesty) and sharam (shame/embarrassment), which have a considerable influence on how many will behave.
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Akmaldinova, Oleksandra, Liudmyla Budko, Tetiana Shulha, Олександра Миколаївна Акмалдінова, Людмила Василівна Будко, and Тетяна Валеріївна Шульга. "Competence based approach to teaching professional English in training aviation specialists." Thesis, Kyiv national aviational university, 2018//Aviation in the XXI-sr century: the eighth world congress October 10-12, 2018, 2018. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/38799.
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The article deals with the problems of teaching special aviation English course in the context of flight safety. It gives an overview of human factor issues in aircraft accidents occurrence including psychological aspects of human error nature. It focuses on the impact of linguistic, cultural and environmental barriers on the safety of civil aviation operations.У статті розглядаються проблеми навчання спеціального курсу авіаційної англійської мови в контексті безпеки польотів. Надається огляд питань людського фактору в аваріях на літаках, включаючи психологічні аспекти людської помилки. Стаття зосереджується на впливі мовних, культурних та екологічних бар’єрів на безпеку операцій цивільної авіації.
В статье рассматриваются проблемы преподавания специального курса авиационного английского языка в контексте безопасности полетов. Предоставляется обзор вопросов человеческого фактора при возникновении авиационных проишествий, включая психологические аспекты ошибок человека. Основное внимание уделяется влиянию языковых, культурних и экологических барьеров на безопасность полетов гражданской авиации.
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Kung, Fan-Wei. "Investigating the effects of conversational shadowing for EFL learners' listening and speaking competence in a TOEFL iBT preparation course : pedagogical effectiveness and washback." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707806.
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This study investigates the effectiveness of conversational shadowing and washback in a TOEFL iBT preparation course for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. An experimental design was proposed with 52 EFL learners from a TOEFL iBT preparation course at an educational institute in Taiwan who were further divided into the control and experimental groups for 12 weeks based on the learning of conversational shadowing through the teaching-to-the-test approach. During this time, the experimental group received the intervention of conversational shadowing while the control group did not. To further assess learners’ progress, the pre- and post-tests based on the institutional TOEFL iBT listening and speaking assessments were administered and analyzed quantitatively along with the pre- and post-questionnaires before and after this study, followed by a series of semi-structured interviews along with the researcher’s field notes for more qualitative data that added more depth to this investigation pertaining to learners’ confidence, learning motivation, and attitudes based on the instruction of conversational shadowing. This study concludes with several essential pedagogical implications from the data collected and analyzed. The results indicated that conversational shadowing not merely improved EFL learners’ English listening and speaking competence, but also strengthened their confidence, learning motivation, and attitudes based on the pre- and post-tests as well as pre- and post-questionnaires. Several salient reasons were further identified by the participants that facilitated their English learning based on such a learning approach. While learners’ valued the instruction of conversational shadowing, the teaching-to-the-test approach used in this study was deemed ineffective with regard to their English learning nowadays. The existence of a negative washback effect in class was also found to undermine students’ L2 development with a few reasons identified at the same time that highlighted the needs for more communicative language learning in an EFL context.
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Barjakob, Michel, and Mathias Johansson. "Har chefer slutat lyssna? : En studie om kommunikationstillfredsställelse och chefers aktiva lyssnande." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för ekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-21137.
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Titel: Har chefer slutat lyssna? – en studie om kommunikationstillfredsställelse och chefers aktiva lyssnande. Nivå: Examensarbete för kandidatexamen i företagsekonomi. Författare: Michel Barjakob, Mathias Johansson. Handledare: Kristina Mickelsson, Pär Vilhelmson. Datum: 2016 - januari Syfte: I denna studie vill vi söka en djupare förståelse för chefers aktiva lyssnande och hur det formar medarbetarnas kommunikationstillfredsställelse. Metod: Då studiens syfte är att skapa en djupare förståelse i chefers aktiva lyssnande så har vi utfört en kvalitativ forskning. Data har samlats in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med tio anställda från en ledande elektronikkedja i Gävle. Materialet har analyserats genom tematisering och presenterats med resultaten. Resultat & slutsats: Studien visar att chefer bör ha en tillräckligt hög kommunikationskompetens för att veta när ett aktivt lyssnande ska tillämpas eller ej. Chefers kommunikationskompetens formar de anställdas kommunikations-tillfredsställelse samtidigt som det framkommit att chefer inte är medvetna om det aktiva lyssnandet i tillräcklig utsträckning. Förslag till vidare forskning: Studien har varit djupgående med sin kvalitativa forskning och ligger som grund till vårt förslag till vidare forskning. Deltagarna i denna studie har efterfrågat en uppföljning av det aktiva lyssnandet. Ett ytterligare förslag till vidare forskning är en undersökning efter det aktiva lyssnandets avspegling på företagsresultat. Uppsattsens bidrag: Bidraget till studiens målgrupp syftar till det tomrum som lokaliserats samt besvarats. En teoretisk modell har skapats med hjälp av tidigare forskning som kartlägger begrepp inom kommunikation och tillfredsställelse. Det praktiska bidraget syftar till chefer då kunskap inom aktivt lyssnande kan hjälpa chefer att kommunicera med sina medarbetare. Nyckelord: kommunikationskompetens, aktivt lyssnande, kommunikationstillfredsställelse, arbetstillfredsställelse, forma.Title: Har chefer slutat lyssna? – en studie om kommunikationstillfredsställelse och chefers aktiva lyssnande. Level: Final assignment for Bachelor Degree in Business Administration. Author: Michel Barjakob, Mathias Johansson. Supervisor: Kristina Mickelsson, Pär Vilhelmson. Date: 2016 – january Aim: In this study we aim to create a deeper understanding in supervisors active listening and how it shapes employees communication satisfaction. Method: Due to the aim of the study, which is to create a deeper understanding in supervisors active listening, we have conducted a qualitative research. Data has been gathered through semi-structured interviews with ten employees from a leading electronic store and was conducted in Gävle. Result & conclusions: The study show that supervisors must possess enough communication competence to know when active listening should be used. Supervisors communication competence shapes the employees communication satisfaction meanwhile most supervisors lack knowledge in active listening. Suggestions for future research: Our suggestions for future research are based on this study’s qualitative research. The participants have requested a follow-up of the active listening. A further recommendation for further research is to examine the impact active listening has on company results. Contribution of the thesis: The study contributes by filling the gap we found in our research area. A theoretical model was developed based on previous research, which helped find and localize communication and satisfaction and its components. The practical contribution is aimed towards supervisors hoping to receive knowledge in active listening to help them communicate with their co-workers. Key words: communication competence, active listening, communication satisfaction, job satisfaction, shape.
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Lucero, David Milford. "Impact of Intercultural Competence on Communicative Success in L2 Environments(With Reference to Missionaries of The Church ofJesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7775.
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This study explores the impact of cultural competence on success in completing key missionary tasks. Qualitative survey results are supported by data from an intercultural effectiveness assessment and a Mandarin Chinese listening proficiency test to describe themes related to missionary communicative success and to explore correlations between intercultural effectiveness and listening proficiency. Missionary communicative tasks are clarified into themes:"obtaining referrals,"obtaining teaching opportunities," and"helping people make and keep commitments." Factors perceived as associating with communicative success include"feeling and communicating love" and receiving"spiritual guidance." The effect of training on intercultural competence is also described. The intercultural effectiveness subcategory of positive regard is shown to have significant correlation with listening proficiency and with missionaries' perceptions of their own awareness of Chinese culture. Suggestions are made for further research and program development.
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Andrén, Kim. "Media form and ESL students’ comprehension : A comparative study between audiobooks and printed text." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-41971.
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This study aims to investigate how the choice of media form, i.e. printed format, audiobook or reading and audio combined, affect the ability of ESL students to achieve comprehension, and how different ways of asking questions can affect their comprehension ability. Lastly, the study aims to investigate the relationship between comprehension and students’ proficiency levels in their L2. To answer this question, 155 students were recruited and divided into three groups and assigned one type of media form. The quantitative data was collected through an online comprehension test and analysed. The results showed a significant difference between the media forms and revealed that printed reading was superior. However, a printed and audio combination was the most time efficient way for students to achieve comprehension, which indicates that the inclusion of audio does not impede student learning. Previous research in the same field shows that the results are inconclusive, but shares one common conclusion, that students enjoy the audio format. As a result, the educational system should make every effort to media choices for students to choose their preferred media, and more research in the field needs to be done, as students enjoyment leads to increased learning.
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Carneiro, Cacilda Silva Oliveira. "Escuta ativa de depoimentos: uma proposta pedag?gica para o desenvolvimento da compet?ncia comunicativa oral." Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, 2016. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/532.
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This educational intervention proposal is the product of Course Completion performed in the scope of the Professional Master of Arts (PROFLETRAS) of the State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS). It consists of applying listening activities of formal and informal testimonials in order to promote reflection on the language and contribute to the development of oral communication skills of the students, so necessary for the socio-affective practice of the individual. These reflections also undergo retextualization activities, they discuss themes such as linguistic diversity and the relations between speech and writing in an approach that represents an improvement when considering the guidelines introduced by the textbooks. The proposal in question is based on the design of interactive language - dialogue space that enables social practice of all kinds of acts - contrary to the approach of orality in the classroom as an excuse to practice reading and writing Marcuschi (1997, 2005a , 2005b); Marcuschi and Dion?sio (2007); Dolz; Schneuwly (2004); Bentes (2010); BRAZIL (1997, 1998); Oliveira (2012); Bortoni-Ricardo (2004), Bronckart (2003); Machado (2007). The didactic sequence (DS) - structured in modules - was applied to a group of 6th grade of elementary level from a public school of S?o Domingos in the state of Bahia, during the period of two months, totalizing 26h/classes. The material obtained in the DS and analyzed in this work - audio, video and written texts ? were obtained from the study subjects. The results of the intervention point that working with oral communication in the classroom, from the active listening texts, is productive and that the choice of testimony genre sparked interest and developed the creativity of students, becoming apparent in their productions, their progress regarding the oral competence. It is believed that if the DS were applied in greater time it would give more significant results. The research material is available in a repository for those who are interested in the discussions on the teaching of orality and concerned about the development of the oral competence of their students. The idea is that the proposal presented here add to other orality teaching proposals specifically, and mother tongue teaching, more broadly, in order to improve basic education and the life quality of students, expanding their communicative competence and making them, therefore, able to move around within the society without difficulty, mastering the resources and language mechanisms, understanding the meanings and senses that come to her.
Esta proposta de interven??o pedag?gica ? produto do Trabalho de Conclus?o de Curso realizado no ?mbito do Mestrado Profissional em Letras (PROFLETRAS) da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS). Consiste na aplica??o de atividades de escuta de depoimentos formais e informais, a fim de promover reflex?es sobre a l?ngua, colaborando para o desenvolvimento da compet?ncia comunicativa oral dos alunos, t?o necess?ria ? pr?tica social efetiva do indiv?duo. Essas reflex?es passam tamb?m por atividades de retextualiza??o, discutindo temas como diversidade lingu?stica e rela??es entre fala e escrita, numa abordagem que representa um avan?o, quando se consideram as orienta??es trazidas pelos livros did?ticos. A proposi??o em quest?o se fundamenta na concep??o de l?ngua interativa, contr?ria ? abordagem da oralidade em sala de aula como pretexto para a pr?tica de leitura e escrita. Nesse sentido, o aporte te?rico vem de estudos dos PCN (1997), (1998); Marcuschi (1997, 2005a, 2005b); Marcuschi e Dion?sio (2007); Dolz; Schneuwly (2004); Bentes (2010); BRASIL (1997, 1998); Oliveira (2012); Bortoni-Ricardo (2004), Bronckart, (2003); Machado (2007). A sequ?ncia did?tica (SD) foi aplicada em uma turma do 6? ano do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola municipal de S?o Domingos, Bahia, no per?odo de dois meses, totalizando 26h/aulas. O material obtido na SD e analisado nesta disserta??o trata-se de ?udios, v?deos e retextualiza??es, obtidos dos sujeitos da pesquisa. Os resultados da interven??o apontam que o trabalho com a oralidade em sala de aula, a partir da escuta ativa de textos ? produtivo e que a escolha do g?nero depoimento despertou o interesse e desenvolveu a criatividade dos alunos, ficando evidente, em suas produ??es, seu avan?o no que diz respeito ? compet?ncia oral. Acredita-se que, aplicada em maior espa?o de tempo, a SD daria resultados ainda mais significativos. O material da pesquisa fica dispon?vel em um reposit?rio para quem tenha interesse nas discuss?es sobre ensino de oralidade e se preocupe com o desenvolvimento da compet?ncia oral de seus alunos. A ideia ? que a proposta aqui apresentada some-se a outras propostas de ensino de oralidade, mais especificamente, e de ensino de l?ngua materna, de maneira mais ampla, tendo em vista a melhoria da Educa??o B?sica e da qualidade de vida dos alunos, ampliando-lhes a compet?ncia comunicativa e tornando-os, com isso, capazes de movimentar-se, sem maiores dificuldades, dentro da sociedade, dominando os recursos e mecanismos da l?ngua, compreendendo os significados e sentidos que chegam at? ela.
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Corsetti, Cristiane Ruzicki. "The enhancement of pragmatic competencies via listening activities." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2010. http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/1949.
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Previous issue date: 2010-01-18A comunica??o verbal abrange a decodifica??o de formas lingu?sticas e a interpreta??o de significados impl?citos, o que pode ocasionar problemas para aprendizes que desejem se comunicar em contextos de segunda l?ngua. Esta disserta??o apresenta um panorama de teorias pragm?ticas que abordam o tema infer?ncias e comunica??o verbal, a fim de destacar fen?menos pragm?ticos que afetam o significado de enunciados, especificamente atos de fala, implicaturas conversacionais generalizadas e particularizadas e estrat?gias de polidez. Uma an?lise cr?tica de modelos de compet?ncia comunicativa detalha as habilidades que aprendizes necessitam desenvolver para atingir seus objetivos comunicativos e tamb?m faz uma revis?o da no??o de compet?ncia pragm?tica. Posi??es acerca do desenvolvimento pragm?tico destacam a import?ncia de proporcionar input pragm?tico a aprendizes. Este estudo tamb?m prop?e um modelo alternativo de compet?ncia pragm?tica em comunica??o verbal, enfocando a compreens?o pragm?tica e objetivando caracterizar o que dificulta a compreens?o e produ??o de significados pragm?ticos por parte dos aprendizes. A descri??o das sub-compet?ncias inferencial, conversacional-interacional e sociolingu?stica incluiu an?lises pragm?ticas de transcri??es de atividades de compreens?o auditiva, retiradas de livros-texto preparat?rios para o exame IELTS e de recursos online. Esta disserta??o tamb?m investigou o papel de atividades de compreens?o auditiva como uma proposta metodol?gica alternativa, visando promover o desenvolvimento pragm?tico. Um projeto emp?rico, que incluiu um projeto de sala de aula com um grupo de oito aprendizes preparando-se para o exame IELTS, corroborou as seguintes hip?teses: a fim de atingir profici?ncia em compreens?o auditiva, aprendizes necessitam de pr?tica inferencial, visto que infer?ncias sem?nticas e pragm?ticas inserem-se na comunica??o verbal; aspectos sem?nticos e pragm?ticos, que afetam a significa??o dos enunciados, podem ser destacados atrav?s de atividades de compreens?o auditiva que enfocam sub-habilidades espec?ficas de compreens?o auditiva. Os resultados do projeto de sala de aula sugeriram que atividades de compreens?o auditiva t?m o potencial de aprimorar diretamente a sub-compet?ncia inferencial, mas foram inconclusivos com rela??o ?s sub-compet?ncias conversacional-interacional e sociolingu?stica.
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Corsetti, Cristiane Ruzicki. "The enhancement of pragmatic competencies via listening activities." Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10923/4158.
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Previous issue date: 2009Verbal communication comprises the decoding of linguistic forms and the interpretation of implicit meanings, which may pose a problem to language learners who wish to communicate in L2 contexts. This thesis presents an overview of pragmatic theories addressing the theme “inferences and verbal communication” in order to highlight pragmatic phenomena which affect utterance meaning, namely speech acts, generalized and particularized conversational implicatures and politeness strategies. The critical analysis of communicative competence frameworks details the abilities learners need to develop so as to achieve their communicative purposes and it also reviews the notion of pragmatic competence. Views on pragmatic development stress the importance of providing learners with pragmatic input. This study also proposes an alternative framework of pragmatic competence in verbal communication, which addresses pragmatic comprehension and attempts to characterise what gets in the way of learners comprehending and producing pragmatic meaning. The description of the inferential, conversational-interactional and sociolinguistic sub-competencies included the pragmatic analyses of listening transcripts taken from “IELTS” coursebooks and online resources. This thesis also investigated the role of listening comprehension activities as an alternative methodological approach to promote pragmatic development. An empirical project which included a classroom project carried out with a group of eight learners preparing for the IELTS examination corroborated the following assumptions: in order to achieve listening proficiency, learners need practice in making inferences as semantic and pragmatic inferences are embedded in verbal communication; semantic and pragmatic aspects affecting the meaning of utterances can be highlighted via comprehension activities focusing on specific listening sub-skills. The results of the classroom project suggested that listening comprehension activities are potentially capable of directly enhancing the inferential pragmatic sub-competency but were inconclusive with regard to the conversational-interactional and sociolinguistic sub-competencies.
A comunicação verbal abrange a decodificação de formas linguísticas e a interpretação de significados implícitos, o que pode ocasionar problemas para aprendizes que desejem se comunicar em contextos de segunda língua. Esta dissertação apresenta um panorama de teorias pragmáticas que abordam o tema “inferências e comunicação verbal”, a fim de destacar fenômenos pragmáticos que afetam o significado de enunciados, especificamente atos de fala, implicaturas conversacionais generalizadas e particularizadas e estratégias de polidez. Uma análise crítica de modelos de competência comunicativa detalha as habilidades que aprendizes necessitam desenvolver para atingir seus objetivos comunicativos e também faz uma revisão da noção de competência pragmática. Posições acerca do desenvolvimento pragmático destacam a importância de proporcionar input pragmático a aprendizes. Este estudo também propõe um modelo alternativo de competência pragmática em comunicação verbal, enfocando a compreensão pragmática e objetivando caracterizar o que dificulta a compreensão e produção de significados pragmáticos por parte dos aprendizes. A descrição das sub-competências inferencial, conversacional-interacional e sociolinguística incluiu análises pragmáticas de transcrições de atividades de compreensão auditiva, retiradas de livros-texto preparatórios para o exame “IELTS” e de recursos online. Esta dissertação também investigou o papel de atividades de compreensão auditiva como uma proposta metodológica alternativa, visando promover o desenvolvimento pragmático. Um projeto empírico, que incluiu um projeto de sala de aula com um grupo de oito aprendizes preparando-se para o exame IELTS, corroborou as seguintes hipóteses: a fim de atingir proficiência em compreensão auditiva, aprendizes necessitam de prática inferencial, visto que inferências semânticas e pragmáticas inserem-se na comunicação verbal; aspectos semânticos e pragmáticos, que afetam a significação dos enunciados, podem ser destacados através de atividades de compreensão auditiva que enfocam sub-habilidades específicas de compreensão auditiva. Os resultados do projeto de sala de aula sugeriram que atividades de compreensão auditiva têm o potencial de aprimorar diretamente a sub-competência inferencial, mas foram inconclusivos com relação às sub-competências conversacional-interacional e sociolinguística.
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Karakaya, Duygu. "Non-native Efl Teachers'." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613698/index.pdf.
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Firstly, in this study, foreign language listening and speaking anxiety levels of the non-native EFL instructors working at preparatory schools of two state and two private universities in Turkey were discovered. Next, if their L2 learning contexts, English-speaking country experience, the length of their teaching experience and the institution they work at affect their listening and speaking anxiety levels was scrutinized.
Secondly, these EFL instructors&rsquoperceived competencies in teaching listening and speaking skills were identified. In addition, the effect of different variables on their perceived competency levels such as their undergraduate departments, their participation in graduate studies and in-service teacher training programs, the length of their teaching experience and also the institutions where they work was analyzed. Besides, the relationship between the listening and speaking anxiety levels of these instructors, and their self-reported competency levels in teaching these skills was explored. Finally, this study identified the EFL instructors&rsquo
frequency of addressing listening and speaking skills in listening and speaking tasks in the lessons according to the curriculum of the institution where they work in order to discover its relationship with the instructors&rsquo
perceived competency levels in teaching these skills. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected through a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews, both of which were used in a complementary fashion in this study. In addition, a total of 150 non-native EFL instructors participated in the questionnaire phase of the study and nine instructors from the participant universities were interviewed. The findings of this study indicated that the participant instructors experience moderate level of foreign language listening and speaking anxiety. Moreover, these instructors&rsquo
L2 learning contexts, English-speaking country experience and their length of teaching experience significantly influence their foreign language listening and speaking anxiety levels. Furthermore, the instructors perceive themselves as competent in terms of teaching listening and speaking skills and their participation in in-service teacher training programs, graduate studies and their length of teaching experience were found to be the contributors of their competence. In addition, a moderate level of negative relationship between foreign language anxiety levels of the instructors, and their self-reported competencies in teaching listening and speaking skills was identified. Finally, a positive relationship was explored between the frequency of the instructors&rsquo
addressing listening and speaking skills in the classroom considering the curriculum of their institutions and their perceived competency levels in teaching these skills. In this sense, the results demonstrated the effect of the institution and the curriculum on the instructors&rsquo
perceived competency levels in terms of teaching listening and speaking skills.
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Han, Koogin. "Design leadership and communication : characteristics and abilities of design leaders communicating design to non-designers during the fuzzy front end of new product development." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9759.
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This research investigates the key characteristics of design leaders in the context of New Product Development (NPD) at the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) or early stage of this process. It particularly focuses on how design leaders communicate design to non-designers. It is often observed that designers struggle to communicate design to non-designers. Previous research has identified design leaders as competent design communicators. However, the definition and key characteristics of design leaders remain unclear. By reviewing the literature on leadership studies, design leadership and project leadership, it is evident that no single universal definition of leadership exists. The most common definition is that leaders apply their knowledge and skills to conduct activities and use their traits to influence other people’s actions. Leadership requires different characteristics for different tasks. To understand the characteristics of design leaders, triangulated research was employed at a real-life NPD project involving young designers and non-designers at early stages of NPD as part of the first study. All participants (N=32) were directly observed, interviewed in semi-structured interviews and administered with assistive questionnaires to compare design and non-design participants’ leadership and communication styles. The second study was in-depth, focusing on UK design leaders (N=11) through semi-structured interviews and based on deficiencies in leadership and communicating design, identified from the first study and the literature review. Comparative studies indicate that designers and design leaders vary their attitudes towards non-designers, motivation and communication style. This study highlights the key characteristics of design leaders: an epiphany by experiencing the entire NPD process, interest in the benefits of NPD stakeholders, a good understanding of design competency, reflectively flexible working attitude and strong, active listening. Thus, a conceptual model was formulated and evaluated, able to guide designers who wish to become design leaders and help to enhance design communication and relationships with non-designers.
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Tao-chi, Her. "Incorporating a Listening Component into the Basic Competence English Test: A Questionnaire Survey." 2005. http://www.cetd.com.tw/ec/thesisdetail.aspx?etdun=U0021-2004200718475393.
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Tao-chi, Her, and 賀道啟. "Incorporating a Listening Component into the Basic Competence English Test: A Questionnaire Survey." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92774405948508667657.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
英語學系
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The present Basic Competence English Test is a test of reading competence. It cannot assess examinees’ communicative competence in English listening, speaking and writing. Since listening competence is a fundamental skill in English learning, its importance should not be neglected. Therefore, the present study is conducted to investigate high school teachers’ and students’ attitudes toward the necessity and feasibility of incorporating a listening test into the Basic Competence English Test. After a careful literature review, three questionnaires respectively for high school teachers, senior and junior high school students are introduced. The participants were 300 high school teachers, 420 junior high school students and 480 senior high school students from Northern, Central, Southern and Eastern Taiwan. The major findings are as follows: (1) Most teachers are aware of the importance of developing students’ listening competence in English, although not all of them put enough emphasis on it. With regard to the argument that reading competence does not equal overall competence or listening competence, it is not distinctively rejected or supported. Finally, most teachers agree the incorporation is beneficial and feasible after a few problems are solved. (2) The factors that affect teachers’ attitudes toward the feasibility of incorporating a listening test into the Basic Competence English Test include the teachers’ experience with students, their recognition of the importance to develop communicative competence and their agreement on the advantages of the incorporation. (3) Students consider their performances on reading tests to be similar to those on listening tests. Most of them agree the incorporation is necessary and feasible after a few problems are solved. (4) As for the factors that affect students’ attitudes toward the feasibility of the incorporation, their attitudes toward the incorporation play a significant role. For senior high school students, their self-evaluated listening competence also affects their attitudes toward the feasibility. For junior high school students, their gender and test-taking experience both affect their attitudes. (5) The physical condition of testing (i.e., facilities and equipment) is the major problem that hinders the feasibility. Junior high school students are also concerned about speech clarity. The findings offer the following implications: First, before implementing the incorporation scheme, testing facilities and equipment need to be first improved. In addition, the task type, text type and content of the test should be well-designed to assess the core abilities that are common to all examinees. Second, the amount and quality of English listening instruction in some areas requires improvement.
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JU, LIN YI, and 林怡如. "Elementary schools Mandarin at the second stage Listening Core Competence Test Writing And Analysis." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28141799983173514553.
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碩士國立臺中教育大學
教育測驗統計研究所
97
Abstract This research focuses on listening ability indexes in Grade 1-9 Curriculum in elementary schools. Based on “The Strand Contents and Competence Indicator Benchmarks for Mandarin Domain Curriculum” promulgated by the Ministry of Education Affairs, a basic academic attainment test for fifth and sixth grade students is designed to serve as a tool to test the students’ competence in this learning area. The test results are analyzed statistically to verify the reliability of this test. The systematic mechanism for analyzing how test items are formed and tests model will be able to provide a guideline to course designers and teachers in writing a listening test, and also in developing item pool of elementary school core competence test. The data is qualitatively analyzed on the item checklists, table of specification. Then a model was chosen therein, and analyzed its estimating peculiarity of item analysis, such as difficult, discrimination and so on. As for test analysis, reliability and content validity are used as the target to decide whether this test quality is good or bad. Further this study aims to investigate elementary school students’ response to listening ability test and Taiwan Assessment of Student Achievement(TASA). Finally this research integrates the qualitative and quantitative analysis, checks the effect of item analysis and tools of test writing. The goals of this research are: 1. In a serious checking by kinds of checklists, most items are good in the qualitative analysis. 2. In quantitative analysis, we find a good result in the estimating peculiarity. On the other hand, the test reliability is over 0.809 and the test validity is also good. 3. The students are not good at generalizing from what they listen,and they can not distinguish the information advertised phraseology implied. 4. The students who are good at listening show well-learning ability.
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Годлевськая, Дана. "Effective listening as the component of students’ communicative competence in profile higher educational institutions." Thesis, 2012. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/20285.
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Tsai, Bin-ying, and 蔡彬穎. "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RECEPTIVE ENGLISH VOCABULARY SIZES AND LISTENING COMPREHENSION COMPETENCE OF COLLEGE EFL STUDENTS." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21072816049334709607.
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碩士國立高雄師範大學
英語學系
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ABSTRACT This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the receptive vocabulary sizes and listening comprehension competence of Taiwanese college EFL students. The differences between seniors’ and freshmen’s performances on the listening vocabulary, on the reading vocabulary, and on the listening comprehension were examined respectively. In addition, the relationships between listening and reading vocabulary performances, between listening vocabulary performance and listening comprehension, and between reading vocabulary performance and listening comprehension of the subjects were explored. The differences between the subjects’ listening and reading vocabularies were also explored. Furthermore, the listening strategies used as well as the listening difficulties encountered by the subjects were discussed. The subjects were 161 college students, 78 seniors and 83 freshmen, from the English Department at National Kaohsiung Normal University. All of the subjects were required to take the Listening Vocabulary Levels Test developed by the researcher of this study based on Schmitt’s Reading Vocabulary Levels Test (2000), Reading Vocabulary Levels Test (Schmitt, 2000), and Listening Comprehension Test and were asked to fill in the questionnaire. The subjects’ scores of those three tests were calculated. Further, statistical measures were employed to analyze the relationships between the subjects’ receptive vocabulary sizes and their listening comprehension. The major findings of this study are summarized as follows: 1. The differences between seniors’ and freshmen’s performances reached the significant level on the Listening Vocabulary Levels Test, on the Reading Vocabulary Levels Test, and on the Listening Comprehension Test. Seniors had significantly better performances than freshmen did on both of the Listening and Reading Vocabulary Levels Tests as well as on each level of those two tests, and on the Listening Comprehension Test. 2. The correlation between the subjects’ performances on the Listening and Reading Vocabulary Levels Tests, on the Listening Vocabulary Levels Test and Listening Comprehension Test, and on the Reading Vocabulary Levels Test and Listening Comprehension Test were significantly positive. 3. The differences between the subjects’ performances on the whole Listening Vocabulary Levels Test and Reading Vocabulary Levels Test reached the significant level. The subjects had significantly better performance on the Reading Vocabulary Levels Test than on the Listening Vocabulary Levels Test. 4. Seniors used listening strategies more frequently and used more types of listening strategies than freshmen did. Seniors encountered listening difficulties less frequently and encountered fewer types of listening difficulties than freshmen did. In conclusion, it is suggested that EFL teachers should take four important factors related to EFL learners’ listening comprehension into account. Those four factors are (a) learners’ levels of listening vocabulary size, (b) learners’ levels of reading vocabulary size, (c) learners’ use frequency and use types of the listening strategies, and (d) learners’ encounter frequency and types of listening difficulties.
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Prizel-Kania, Adriana. "Rozwijanie i testowanie sprawności rozumienia ze słuchu w języku polskim jako obcym na poziomie B2 z uwzględnieniem rezutatów egzaminów certyfikatowych." Praca doktorska, 2011. https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/52942.
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Chien, Juo-Ping, and 簡若玶. "Chinese Listening and Speaking: Curriculum Design Based on the Competence-oriented Approach --Action Research on Intermediate-Low Level of German Students in a Sinology Department." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6bfh76.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
華語文教學系
105
The aim of this study is to design an intermediate-low Chinese listening and speaking course integrated with a competence-oriented approach. It was inspired by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) and Handreichung für das Fach Chinesisch (Teaching Guidelines for the Subject of Chinese) from the school from Hesse Ministry of Culture, both of which evaluate different levels of foreign language proficiency. In contrast, one of the main teaching methods at college remains to be the method of grammar translation, which does not stand in correlation with the current principles. However, in recent years “competence-oriented teaching” has been actively promoted by European foreign language education, cultivating learners’ competency of communication in the target language and those of problem-solving in appropriate language forms when facing cross-cultural conflicts. This thesis discusses the difficulties that German students have encountered in acquiring listening and speaking skills in the non-Chinese environment and the considerations that teachers take in designing the listening-speaking curriculum and arranging classroom activities in response to these difficulties. This study applies survey, developmental, and action research in its methodology. The participants in this study were the 14 students registered for Chinese Conversation III of the Sinology department at Trier University in 2015. The data collected include a questionnaire on learner needs, a course syllabus, lesson plans, and student course evaluation. Their analysis is used as a basis to optimize the listening-speaking curriculum. The results yield three major findings: Firstly, the four problems of listening- speaking courses in Germany are the inadequacy of textbooks, lack of real language situations and opportunities for target language practice, insufficient time for implementing all classroom tasks, and a shortage of dynamic formative assessments. In order to solve them, the author proposes the following principles: selecting authentic listening materials, together with steps towards the implementation of such a principle; the Flipped Classroom; the “Moderator’s mode: discussions led by students”; and the design of oral report projects. Secondly, German students prefer “free talking” oral exercises. They display relatively wide acceptance of listening exercises of different varieties. In terms of teachers, instead of focusing on some specific competences, the syllabus design should contain all the components that an intermediate-low level student requires. Thirdly, this study provides an example of a reformed listening-speaking course syllabus with optimized lesson planning, focusing on “intercultural communication competences” with the texts of Integrated Chinese Level 2 Part 1.
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Колодка, Аліна Павлівна, and Alina Pavlivna Kolodka. "Запитання, які використовуються в роботі за прочитаним чи прослуханим текстом (на матеріалі сучасних підручників з російської мови)." Master's thesis, 2021. http://repository.sspu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/12047.
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Дослідження пов’язане з вирішенням найважливішої методичної проблеми шкільного навчання, що стосується галузі формування комунікативної (мовленнєвої) компетентності учнів, – проблеми розвитку й удосконалення в школярів умінь відповідати на запитання, ставити запитання й правильно їх формулювати та виявлення методичних ресурсів сучасних навчальних книг, які допомагають учителю організувати роботу в зазначеному напрямі.The research is connected with the solution of the most important methodological problem school education related to the field of formation communicative (speech) competence of pupils, – problem of development and improving the ability of pupils to answer questions, ask questions and formulate them correctly and identify methodological resources of modern educational books that help the teacher to organize work in indicated direction.
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Ždímalová, Hana. "Předposlechová fáze ve výuce poslechu u dospělého žáka na úrovni A2 - B1." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-327182.
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The Pre-listening Stage in L2 Listening Instruction to A2 - B1 Adult Learners By Hana Ždímalová This dissertation deals with listening instruction to adult EFL learners in the Czech Republic and the phenomenon of pre-listening, which is currently under-researched. It examines adult EFL students' perspectives and perceptions of listening instruction and of the inclusion of different pre-listening techniques, particularly at CEFR A2-B1 proficiency levels. The theoretical part of the study focuses on current developments in listening research and the historical context of the development of listening instruction in classical FLT methodology. The pre-listening stage has been integral to L2 listening instruction since the beginning of Communicative Language Teaching. However, some controversial issues have recently been raised. For example, teachers are sometimes suspected of spending too much time on the pre- listening stage (Field 2002; 2008) and the overall usefulness of previewed comprehension questions in testing listening has been challenged (Sherman 1997). Moreover, adult students' listening needs and their perceptions of listening instruction have not yet been thoroughly researched (Graham 2006; Graham and Macaro 2008). This study argues that we should ask the students about their perceptions...
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Babušová, Gabriela. "Evoluce komunikačních činností u žáků 1.-3. ročníku na základní škole." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-334573.
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TITLE: The Evolution of Communication Activities for Pupils in Grades 1-3 at primary school AUTHOR: Mgr. Gabriela Babušová DEPARTMENT: Department of Czech Language, Pedagogical Faculty of Charles University in Prague SUPERVISOR: doc. PhDr. Eva Hájková, CSc. ABSTRACT: The thesis titled "The Evolution of communication activities for pupils in grades 1-3 at primary school" based on the existing knowledge on the topic present their own knowledge through research, which focuses on the area of communication education, the development of communication activities in the educational process, and the education of Czech and Vietnamese pupils in the educational area of the language and the language of communication. In the theoretical part of the thesis systematize the existing knowledge relating to the topic and consider them starting points for the development. The main objective of the work, based on the empirical investigation, is to create and present an evolution of communication activities for pupils of younger school age during their first training period with regard to the education of pupils from the Vietnamese ethnicity. The research topic is further divided into intermediate objectives, to whose fulfillment the work is going. The practical part is focused on the description of the project research, research...
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Pawson, Petrone. "'n Kommunikatiewe benadering as strategie vir die onderrig van Afrikaans as vreemde taal op tersiere vlak." Diss., 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/15749.
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Text in AfrikaansDie doel van hierdie studie is om die gebruik van die kommunikatiewe taalonderrigbenaderingswyse in die onderrig van Afrikaans as vreemde taal aan eerstejaar onderwysstudente op tersiere vlak, naamlik die Technikon Noord-Gauteng, te ondersoek. Die ondersoek, in die vorm van 'n beskrywende analise, is op verskillende terreine van die taalonderrigwetenskapsveld gedoen. ie kommunikatiewe taalonderrigbenaderingswyse is bestudeer teen die agtergrond van verskeie antler taalonderrigbenaderingswyses wat deur die loop van die afgelope eeu gebruik is, Die verskillende sillabustipes is vergelyk met die kommunikatiewe onderrigbenaderingswyse en uitkomsgebaseerde onderrig ten einde 'n moontlike leerprogram vir die onderrig van Afrikaans as vreemde taal op tersiere vlak saam te ontwikkel. Die nasionale voorgeskrewe sillabus vir onderwysstudente aan technikons, naamlik die onderrig en leer van die taalvaardighede praat, slayf, lees en luister is analities beskryf. Hierdie taalvaardighede is ten slotte vanuit die kommunikatiewe taalonderrigbenaderingswyse binne die uitkomsgebaseerde onderrigraamwerk geplaas as 'n voorstel vir die onderrig van onderwysstudente in Afrikaans as vreemde taal op tersiere vlak.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of the communicative language teaching approach in the teaching of Afrikaans as a foreign language to first year education students at tertiary level, namely the Technikon Northern Gauteng .. The study, a descriptive analysis, took a variety of language teaching aspects into account. Communicative language teaching is described against the background of the different language teaching approaches used in the past century. The different types of syllabuses were compared to communicative language teaching and outcomes-based education in order to develop a possible learning programme for the teaching of Afrikaans as foreign language at tertiary level. The national prescribed syllabus for technicon education students, namely the teaching and learning of the language skills speaking, writing, reading and listening is described analytically. These language skills are communicatively described within the outcomes based framework as a suggested learning programme for the teaching of Afrikaans as a foreign language to education students at tertiary level.
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Antropiusová, Andrea. "bude upřesněno." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-390615.
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This diploma thesis, Didactic exploitation of the francophonie in the Oceania, resulted from insufficient outcomes of a questionnaire focusing on the francophonie and francophone facts of the overseas territories located in the Pacific Ocean. The diploma thesis consists of three main parts which are subsequently divided into subchapters. The first part explains the choice, focus and targets of the questionnaire and provides its evaluation as well. The theoretical part aims at clarifying and defining receptive and productive competence from a didactic viewpoint with regard to language level A2 and B1, given by CEFRL. The practical part follows with a description of created worksheets always containing exercises that aim firstly at receptive competence - listening, and then at productive competence - speaking. Texts together with exercises focus mainly on culture and tradition, then on language situation and language oddities of the following French overseas territories in the Pacific Ocean: French Polynésia, Wallis and Futuna, Vanuatu and New Caledonia. KEYWORDS the Pacific Ocean, language oddities, local languages, overseas territories, francophone, worksheets, receptive and productive competence - listening and speaking, language level, language resources, language games, didactic processing
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Racine, Elyse. "L’influence d’activités en arts plastiques sur l’expérience d’appréciation musicale d’élèves de sixième année du primaire." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4401.
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Depuis 2001, le Programme de formation de l’école québécoise impose l’enseignement de la compétence « apprécier » dans les quatre disciplines artistiques. Ce mémoire s’intéresse à l’influence que peuvent avoir des activités intégrant les arts plastiques à la musique sur l’expérience d’appréciation musicale d’élèves de sixième année du primaire. Plus spécifiquement, elle vise à rendre compte des différentes dimensions présentes dans la description que font les élèves de leur expérience d’appréciation ainsi qu’à comprendre de quelle façon les activités d’appréciation intégrant les arts plastiques à la musique affectent la verbalisation que font les élèves de cette expérience. La recherche prend la forme d’études de cas réalisées auprès de cinq élèves de sixième année du primaire. Ces élèves, ainsi que tous les élèves de leur classe, ont participé à une activité d’appréciation musicale intradisciplinaire ainsi qu’à deux activités d’appréciation interdisciplinaires. Après chacune des activités, ces cinq élèves ont été rencontrés individuellement. Au cours d’entrevues semi-dirigées, il leur était demandé de rendre compte de leur expérience d’appréciation. Quatre grandes tendances ont émergé de l’analyse des propos des élèves, soit le sentiment de mieux s’approprier l’œuvre entendue, une verbalisation plus précise des éléments perçus, une verbalisation plus précise des sentiments ressentis et enfin, une forme de distraction par rapport à l’œuvre entendue. Au terme de cette étude, il semble que l’utilisation d’activité d’appréciation intégrant les arts plastiques à la musique, sans faire l’objet d’un usage systématique, pourrait constituer une forme de différenciation pédagogique qui serait utile à certains types d’apprenants.Since 2001, the Quebec school program states that an « appreciation » competency has to be taught within all four artistic school disciplines. This study describes the influence of activities integrating visual arts and music on the appreciation experience of 6th grade students. More specifically, this study aims to relate the different dimensions that can be found in the students’ verbal account of their appreciation experience and to show how the interdisciplinary activities affect their verbalization of these dimensions. Five case studies conducted with 6th grade elementary school students are presented. These five students, along with the other students in their class, have participated in one intradisciplinary activity and two interdisciplinary activities integrating visual arts and music. Following each activity, the students were met for semi-structured interviews in which they were asked to share their appreciation experience. Four tendencies have emerged from qualitative data analysis: a more insightful listening, a more accurate description of perceptual elements, a more accurate description of the student’s feelings and finally a form of distraction from the music. It appears that appreciation activities which integrate visual arts and music could be, if not a systematic approach, a way to differentiate teaching in a way that could be helpful to some types of learners.