Testing Lecture Comprehension Through Listening-to-summarize Cloze Tasks

6.2.3 Participants’Background Information................. In the qualitative part of the study, all the 16 students’first langu ...

and answer questions on the spot. Therefore, academic setting is one of the domains targeted by TEM 8 and the fourth-year Englis ...

and task type. The participants needed to think aloud when they were tackling the listening task of version 1. b. Version 2: a r ...

gaps that target inferences; gaps that target summaries of a group of sentences. (Syllabus for TEM 8, 2004) The four gap types ...

difficult as answers are not directly stated in the mini-lecture. Therefore, it becomes crucially important to observe how the s ...

6.3.1 Pilot Study of the Qualitative Part of the Research....... A pilot study was carried out two months prior to the main stud ...

them. The researcher only clearly stated the instructions instead of manipulating or directing the participants. Procedures: th ...

Third, after a short break, the research version of the main test was conducted. Participants heard the research version of the ...

6.5 Transcription of TAPs, Retelling Protocols and Interviews....... and Interviews In order to facilitate qualitative data anal ...

language. Since this PhD dissertation was written in English, the researcher translated the original recording directly into Eng ...

6.5.2 Coding Scheme.................................. The crucial criterion one should bear in mind while developing a coding sc ...

mini-lecture and the last sentence indicated the participant inferred from the given outline. So the small piece was then segmen ...

6.5.3 Coding Schemes of the Three Phases................. Cohen (1998) used cognitive processes and strategies interchangeably w ...

Table 6.9 Coding scheme for Phase 1-test-taking Cognitive processes Definition Protocols Decoding+selective attention Reading th ...

The following coding scheme (Table6.10) is an inventory of cognitive opera- tions in Phase 2-retelling: There are also two level ...

Table 6.10 Coding scheme for Phase 2-retelling Cognitive processes Definition Protocols Verbatim(V) Retell almost word for word, ...

Table 6.11 Coding scheme for Phase 3-follow-up interview Key themes Definition Transcriptions Task type Students’report about th ...

6.6 Results of the Test-Taking TAPs.......................... Nvivo 10.0 was employed to (i) save all the TAPs, retelling and in ...

Table 6.12 Overall reported frequencies of cognitive operations in phase 1 Cognitive processes Participants 12345678910111213141 ...

Table 6.12 (continued) Cognitive processes Participants 12345678910111213141516 ①② Test-wiseness strategies 20332302101 40022112 ...