Pub Date : 2020-09-27DOI: 10.1080/10904018.2020.1818565
Janice Lee Jia Yi, Vahid Aryadoust, Li Ying Ng, Stacy Foo
ABSTRACT With the advent of new technologies, assessment research has adopted technology-based methods to investigate test validity. This study investigated the neurocognitive processes involved in an academic listening comprehension test, using a biometric technique called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Sixteen right-handed university students completed two tasks: (1) a linguistic task that involved listening to a mini-lecture (i.e., Listening condition) and answering of questions (i.e., Questions condition) and (2) a non-linguistic task that involved listening to a variety of natural sounds and animal vocalizations (i.e., Sounds condition). The hemodynamic activity in three left brain regions was measured: the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), and posterior middle temporal gyrus (pMTG). The Listening condition induced higher activity in the IFG and pMTG than the Sounds condition. Although not statistically significant, the activity in the dmPFC was higher during the Listening condition than in the Sounds conditions. The IFG was also significantly more active during the Listening condition than in the Questions condition. Although a significant gender difference was observed in listening comprehension test scores, there was no difference in brain activity (across the IFG, dmPFC, and pMTG) between male and female participants. The implications for test validity are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/10904018.2019.1611433
G. Bodie, Jack Winter, Dana Dupuis, Tom Tompkins
This article contributes to the larger literature on meaning construction and misunderstanding by developing a typology of listening habits and a corresponding scale to measure individual differences in typical ways of listening. Our typology includes four habits of listening grounded in two underlying aspects of meaning, content and relational, found in any spoken message. Analytical Listening (AL) involves filtering information through an interest in results and facts, while Conceptual Listening (CL) involves filtering information through an interest in concepts and possibilities. Connective Listening (CV) involves filtering information through interests in others (people, groups, processes, or audiences), while Reflective Listening (RV) involves filtering information through one’s own interests and purposes. Results from two studies provide construct, convergent, and discriminant validity evidence for the resulting ECHO Listening Profile. In particular, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to create a 40-item version of the ECHO Listening Profile (ECHO) that was shown to map onto a conceptually similar measure of listening habits, the Listening Style Profile; ECHO did not, however, fully duplicate that scale and thus adds to our knowledge of how all listening is biased. Moreover, through use of comparative forced-choice scaling, ECHO reduces concerns found with self-reporting of listening, including response bias. Future work investigating the impact of Connective, Reflective, Analytical, and Conceptual Listening on how people navigate their personal and professional lives is warranted.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/10904018.2019.1605907
Jian Huang
Listening comprehension consists of two essential processes: decoding and meaning-building, with the former serving as the basis of the latter. However, as compared to meaning-building, decoding ha...
{"title":"A Syllabus for Listening: Decoding","authors":"Jian Huang","doi":"10.1080/10904018.2019.1605907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10904018.2019.1605907","url":null,"abstract":"Listening comprehension consists of two essential processes: decoding and meaning-building, with the former serving as the basis of the latter. However, as compared to meaning-building, decoding ha...","PeriodicalId":35114,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Listening","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10904018.2019.1605907","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42694176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-08-17DOI: 10.1080/10904018.2020.1803747
Chantal Bourgault du Coudray
ABSTRACT Humanistic psychology is grounded in dialogic communication and existentialist phenomenology, involving a relational philosophy and experientialist methodology. Its relative neglect within listening research is canvased before exploring the praxis of Gestalt therapy – a humanistic psychotherapy – which models integration of philosophy, theory, and practice relevant to listening. While listening research is increasingly attuned to relational aspects of communication and elements of humanistic therapies, it remains shaped by a metaphysics of atomization, compromising its capacity for integrated praxis. The value of conceptualizing listening as a praxis similar to that of Gestalt therapy is therefore elucidated, with particular reference to listening pedagogy in higher education.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-21DOI: 10.1080/10904018.2020.1793676
Özlem Canaran, Ilknur Bayram, M. Dogan, Meltem Huri Baturay
Recent research focusing on the sources of listening anxiety identified individual and external factors (IEF), listeners’ control over input (LC), and perceived level of task difficulty (PTD) as th...
{"title":"CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP AMONG THE SOURCES OF ANXIETY, SELF-EFFICACY, AND PROFICIENCY IN L2 LISTENING","authors":"Özlem Canaran, Ilknur Bayram, M. Dogan, Meltem Huri Baturay","doi":"10.1080/10904018.2020.1793676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10904018.2020.1793676","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research focusing on the sources of listening anxiety identified individual and external factors (IEF), listeners’ control over input (LC), and perceived level of task difficulty (PTD) as th...","PeriodicalId":35114,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Listening","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10904018.2020.1793676","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47336160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-15DOI: 10.1080/10904018.2020.1788946
Hatice Nur Ozcelik, Kris Van den Branden, E. Van Steendam
In language classrooms, listening is considered a problematic skill for various reasons. The uncontrollable nature of speech’s speed of delivery plays a major role in these issues. Tight teacher co...
{"title":"Alleviating Effects of Self-Regulating the Audio on Listening Comprehension Problems","authors":"Hatice Nur Ozcelik, Kris Van den Branden, E. Van Steendam","doi":"10.1080/10904018.2020.1788946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10904018.2020.1788946","url":null,"abstract":"In language classrooms, listening is considered a problematic skill for various reasons. The uncontrollable nature of speech’s speed of delivery plays a major role in these issues. Tight teacher co...","PeriodicalId":35114,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Listening","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10904018.2020.1788946","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47676738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-29DOI: 10.1080/10904018.2020.1781637
Andrea J. Vickery, Sabrina Ventrano
ABSTRACT Recognizing the goal-directed nature of listening, this study investigates how listening style preferences relate to the development of parasocial relationships with hosts of popular media. Participants (N = 149) completed an online questionnaire which asked participants to identify their favorite media host(s), complete the revised listening styles profile, and complete a measure of parasocial relationships. The results of three exploratory research questions reveal that even with a wide variety of reported favorite media hosts, respondents frequently follow their favorite host(s) on social media and that YouTube, in addition to television, is a popular way to access rich visual and audio programming from host(s). Relational listening, in particular, emerges as an important predictor of the strength of parasocial relationships with media personas. We discuss theoretical and practical recommendations for future research at the crossroads of listening, interpersonal communication, and media studies.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-15DOI: 10.1080/10904018.2020.1772071
Tracey Butler, Jane Schueler, J. Lucker
ABSTRACT Professionals may recommend listening therapies for people identified with auditory processing problems. A concern arises whether the therapies have evidence supporting changes that occur after completing such training. The authors looked at a large sample of people over a wide age range who completed TLP training. Using each individual as his/her own control, the following study was undertaken. Files of people ranging in age from 5-year to 50-year old for people who had completed TLP training were evaluated. Assessment was completed via results of the SCAN test of auditory processing both before and after completing training. Analyses of changes on the SCAN were computed via paired samples t-tests. Measures found significant improvements with large effect size improvements. Findings support a conclusion that one should expect improvements in auditory processing abilities in people completing TLP training.
{"title":"Changes in Auditory Processing After Completing The Listening Program Training","authors":"Tracey Butler, Jane Schueler, J. Lucker","doi":"10.1080/10904018.2020.1772071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10904018.2020.1772071","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Professionals may recommend listening therapies for people identified with auditory processing problems. A concern arises whether the therapies have evidence supporting changes that occur after completing such training. The authors looked at a large sample of people over a wide age range who completed TLP training. Using each individual as his/her own control, the following study was undertaken. Files of people ranging in age from 5-year to 50-year old for people who had completed TLP training were evaluated. Assessment was completed via results of the SCAN test of auditory processing both before and after completing training. Analyses of changes on the SCAN were computed via paired samples t-tests. Measures found significant improvements with large effect size improvements. Findings support a conclusion that one should expect improvements in auditory processing abilities in people completing TLP training.","PeriodicalId":35114,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Listening","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10904018.2020.1772071","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42161342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-20DOI: 10.1080/10904018.2020.1764359
H. Ipek
This study investigated the relation between students’ Foreign Language Listening Anxiety (FLLA) and their former listening comprehension training and self-study, whether FLLA decreases after liste...
{"title":"Effects of Former Experience, Self-study & Listening Comprehension Training on Foreign Language Listening Anxiety: The Case of EFL Teacher Candidates","authors":"H. Ipek","doi":"10.1080/10904018.2020.1764359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10904018.2020.1764359","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the relation between students’ Foreign Language Listening Anxiety (FLLA) and their former listening comprehension training and self-study, whether FLLA decreases after liste...","PeriodicalId":35114,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Listening","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10904018.2020.1764359","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44146121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-04-06DOI: 10.1080/10904018.2020.1748503
E. Parks
ABSTRACT In this study, I consider ways that identification with diverse generational cultures might impact conceptualization of what it means to listen well. Using an online survey, I employ the Revised Listening Concepts Inventory (LCI-R) to explore listening cognitive constructs. Based on 433 survey responses gathered between 2016 and 2019 in the Pacific Northwest, Upper Midwest, and Rocky Mountain Range regions of the United States, I found differences between Generation Z and Generation X on learning, relationship building, and evaluative listening cognitive constructs, as well as differences on the evaluative listening cognitive construct between Generation Z and members of all other generations, including Millennial, Generation X, and Boomer cultural cohorts. Based on these initial findings, I suggest that listening scholars pursue future research with cross-generational listening expectations and listening practitioners be attentive to intergenerational differences that inflect our communicative values and behaviors.
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