Listening Across Difference: Oral History as Learning Landscape

Digitizing oral history: can you hear the difference?

Listening comprehension across the adult lifespan.

OBJECTIVES Although age-related declines in perceiving spoken language are well established, the primary focus of research has been on perception of phonemes, words, and sentences. In contrast, relatively few investigations have been directed at establishing the effects of age on the comprehension of extended spoken passages. Moreover, most previous work has used extreme-group designs in which ...

Epigenetic Inheritance across the Landscape

The study of epigenomic variation at the landscape-level in plants may add important insight to studies of adaptive variation. A major goal of landscape genomic studies is to identify genomic regions contributing to adaptive variation across the landscape. Heritable variation in epigenetic marks, resulting in transgenerational plasticity, can influence fitness-related traits. Epigenetic marks a...

intentional and incidental vocabulary learning through listening comprehension

یکی از مسایل مهم در یادگیری زبان ، یادگیری لغت است. هدف این تحقیق ، بررسی یاد گیری شیوه های مستقیم و غیر مستقیم فراگیری لغت درفرایند شنیداری زبان است و اینکه کدامیک از آنها برای بهبود و تسهیل یادگیری واژگان زبان آموزان سطح متوسطه موثرترند.این تحقیق تفاوت بین تاثیر فراگیری مستقیم و غیر مستقیم لغت در فرایند شنیداری زبان در کوتاه مدت را بررسی می کند ، سپس تفاوت بین تاثیر یادگیری مستقیم و غیر مستقی...

Learning to Show You’re Listening

Good listeners generally produce back-channel feedback, that is, short utterances such as uh-huh which signal active listening. As the rules governing back-channeling vary from language to language, second-language learners may need help acquiring this skill. This paper is an initial exploration of how to provide this. It presents a training sequence which enables learners to acquire a basic Ar...