Testing Lecture Comprehension Through Listening-to-summarize Cloze Tasks

2. Learner variability. In order to enhance the strength of conclusions with
   resources available, we need to minimize the learner variability with a rather
   limited number of participants. If the participants were drawn from miscella-
   neous backgrounds, it would be hard to control variables in the main study and
   draw a convincing conclusion that the randomly chosen participants can rep-
   resent their corresponding groups.

16 Student’ TAP, Retelling and Interview Data Collection

Group A: Juniors

(2013 Task) (n=8)

Group B: Seniors

(2010 Task) (n=8)

Grouping Criterion: Which year TEM 8 Mini-lecture task students do as the

research version

TAP instruction

Familiarization Test (TEM 8

mini-lecture task 2010)

Main test for TAP collection:

Take notes while listening to

the TEM 8 mini-lecture 2013

Think aloud while tackling the

gap-filling task

Retell the mini-lecture during

intervals while listening to it for

the second time

Background questionnaire

Follow-up interview

TAP instruction

Familiarization Test (TEM 8

mini-lecture task 2006)

Main test for TAP collection:

Take notes while listening to

the TEM mini-lecture 2010

Think aloud while tackling the

gap-filling task

Retell the mini-lecture during

intervals while listening to it for

the second time

Background questionnaire

Follow-up interview

Fig. 6.1 Research design of the qualitative part of the current study.....

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