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Listening strategies with television texts : a study of Thai university students of English as a foreign language

Kamonpan Boonkit-2002-01-01-UTAS Research Repository
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The aim of the study was to investigate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learner listening strategies. The study was conducted in two phases. Phase I was a survey of the difficulties encountered and the strategies used by Thai university EFL learners in listening to the main points of three types of TV texts (news, lifestyle programs, and commercials). This was conducted with two groups of the students in class, using assessment‚Äö-practice‚Äö-assessment procedures. Open-ended questions were used to gain the data, and quantitative data analysis was employed for the findings. Speed and vocabulary were the key difficulties, and inferencing was the main strategy category reported in the two assessment sessions. After the practice sessions, the final assessment indicated that students improved their listening performance with TV lifestyle programs and commercials. However, there was no statistically significant difference between the first and the final assessments of the main points li

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The aim of the study was to investigate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learner listening strategies. The study was conducted in two phases. Phase I was a survey of the difficulties encountered and the strategies used by Thai university EFL learners in listening to the main points of three types of TV texts (news, lifestyle programs, and commercials). This was conducted with two groups of the students in class, using assessment‚Äö-practice‚Äö-assessment procedures. Open-ended questions were used to gain the data, and quantitative data analysis was employed for the findings. Speed and vocabulary were the key difficulties, and inferencing was the main strategy category reported in the two assessment sessions. After the practice sessions, the final assessment indicated that students improved their listening performance with TV lifestyle programs and commercials. However, there was no statistically significant difference between the first and the final assessments of the main points li

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Active listeningVocabularyPsychologyClass (philosophy)Informational listeningEnglish as a foreign languageForeign languageMathematics education

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