Testing Lecture Comprehension Through Listening-to-summarize Cloze Tasks

TEM 8 Mini-lecture and Gap-filling task. The lowest mean comes from items 22 and 23 of identifying micro discourse markers, whic ...

with their normal teaching agenda. In a word, there must be a balance between reliability of the sample size and validity of the ...

Table 5.7 Variance explained by extracted factors (teacher questionnaire) Total variance explainedComponent Initial eigenvalues ...

explain 68.518% of the total while all the remaining factors are not significant. In addition, the Scree Plot (see Fig.5.1) pres ...

Table 5.8 Rotated component matrix (teacher questionnaire) Rotated component matrixa Component 1234 Item 16 0.768 Item 17 0.751 ...

lecture; items 10, 15, 24 and 25 emphasizing cohesion and coherence, e.g., the cohesive devices used in an academic lecture and ...

5.5.2.4 Students According to statistics generated from student questionnaires, Cronbach’s Alpha (see Table5.10) here in the rel ...

Table 5.12 Variance explained by 9 extracted factors (student questionnaire) Total variance explainedComponent Initial Eigenvalu ...

Table 5.13 Variance explained by 4 extracted factors (student questionnaire) Total variance explainedComponent Initial eigenvalu ...

5.5.2.5 Rotated Component (Factor) Matrix of Students’ Questionnaire Data In the table of Rotated Component Matrix (see Table5.1 ...

Table 5.14 Rotated component matrix (student questionnaire) Rotated component matrixa Component 1234 Item 31 0.773 Item 33 0.761 ...

item to represent this factor, which directs toward the decoding process of listening comprehension. For the third factor, the m ...

successfully complete the task without taking enough notes. In the TAP data, students repeatedly mention the importance of note- ...

5.6.1 Main Factors Representative of Task Demands.......... The factors representative of task demands extracted from both teach ...

In another word, teachers strongly believe identifying key points and their rela- tionship and constructing a macro discourse st ...

5.7 Conclusion........................................... The mixed-methods approach is used in the current research in order to ...

Chapter 6 Employing the Think-Alound Method to Explore Listeners’ Test-Taking Cognitive Processes 6.1 Introduction.............. ...

6.2 Participants in the Qualitative Part of the Research............ In the current study adopting mixed-method triangulation, t ...

Learner variability. In order to enhance the strength of conclusions with resources available, we need to minimize the learner ...

Representative nature of participants. All the participants in the main study are either English Majors or studying English as ...