Effects of Title Closeness on Listening Comprehension

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  • リスニング・コンプリヘンションにおけるタイトルの親近性の効果
  • －日本の大学教養課程－英語教科書20ユニット・タイトルの効果の分析－
  • :Analysis of the Effectiveness of the 20 Unit Titles of a General English Education Textbook at a Japanese University

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A questionnaire composed of 10 paired adjectives ranked on a 7 point-scale was given at a Japanese university to confirm the ‘emotional aspect’ of familiarity and measure images of 20 unit titles of a textbook. After hearing three passages twice each, respondents first answered 6 or 16 TF questions (2, 5, 5 min), then answered a 7 point-scale questionnaire about their prior knowledge of the three topics. In particular a factor of emotional aspect found in the factor analysis named ‘closeness’ was ranked as a sub concept of familiarity. The highest title, the lowest one, and the third one were adopted as ‘the most familiar-’, ‘the least familiar-’ and ‘for-training title’. The results showed statistically siginificant superiority of the most familiar title over the least familiar one. A significant main effect of title familiarity on the scores of the subjects’ first TOEIC Half test score level (then academic achievement), no interaction between title familiarity and the subjects’ first TOEIC Half test score level, and no correlation between TF score for the most familiar title and prior knowledge.

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  • CRID
    1390001206103575680
  • NII Article ID
    130006330132
  • DOI
    10.20629/japtl.9.2_75
  • ISSN
    24241725
    18800718
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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