Listening with šǝqačib: Writing Supportand Community Listening

"orality in Literacy": Listening to Indigenous Writing

Resume One of the characteristics of Indigenous writing around the world may be the use of oral features as deliberate techniques in literary production. The author considers the work of Patricia Grace (of New Zealand), Sally Morgan (Australia) and Marie Annharte Baker (from Canada) in these terms. Une des caractéristiques des oeuvres indigènes autour du monde peut être l'usage des traits oraux...

Listening to the Mind Listening

The following explains what mappings have been chosen for a sonification of several data channels from set containing a recording of the neural activity of a person listening to a piece of music. This piece, and also the sonification, is exactly 300 seconds long. My aim is to provide a sonification/composition that can be created in (near) real-time and takes its title literally. This is done b...

Tablet-based English Listening practice with longer listening materials

When teachers introduce listening and speaking activities in school education, they are no choice but use relatively short materials due to short class-time length. But the ordinary length of lectures or talk shows is more than 20 to 30 minutes.It implies that in real world, people are required to have the ablitiy to listen to longer English materials. In this paper, we examine the speech items...

Listening in on the listening brain

www.physicstoday.org An article published in the journal Brain some 40 years ago forever changed the world of hearing assessment.1 Don Jewett and John Williston reported that neural firing recorded from the human scalp with electroencephalogram electrodes could determine whether a sound was heard. The measured electrical impulses originated in the midbrain, a part of the auditory brainstem, and...

Listening with Two Ears