Testing Lecture Comprehension Through Listening-to-summarize Cloze Tasks

Differences: The difference between Zhuang and Shen mainly lies in their
decoding of the sound pattern in the key word“huskiness”. In Phase 1, Zhuang
gave two other pronunciations of the same word“huskiness”, i.e.,“huspiness”and
“hospiness”. The three different sound patterns (including“hoskiness”in Phase 2)
of the same word indicate Zhuang’s poor decoding of it while Shen’s decoding of
the word is rather consistent throughout Phase 1 and Phase 2, and her answer is
correct (Table7.5).

Table 7.5 Retelling protocols related to Gap Type 2-Details gaps of 2010 TEM 8 (1)

Protocol 1 (Gap No. 2; Wrong answer;

TEM 4: 64; TEM 8 Mini: 4)

Zhuang: Then, there are examples. I can recall all of

them. Thefirst one is whispering, then breathiness

indicate deep emotion, the third one ishoskiness,

though I don’t know the real meaning of hoskiness,

it indicates, as the speaker says, is unimportance

R: Can you spell huskiness?

Zhuang:H, o, s, k, i, n, e, s, s.

R: And the fourth one?

Zhuang: Nasality, means anxiety

R: Ok, the last one?

Zhuang: The last one is extra lip-rounding, indicates

intimacy

Protocol 2 (Gap No. 2; Correct answer;

TEM 4: 64; TEM 8 Mini: 4)

Shen: He listsfive examples

R: Did you get those examples?

Shen: Yes. Whispering, means secrecy, second,

breathiness, means deep what?Huskiness, means

not important and nasality, it means anxiety, and

extra what? It means intimacy

Table 7.6 Retelling protocols related to Gap Type 2-Details gaps of 2010 TEM 8 (2)

Protocol 1 (Gap No. 7; Wrong answer;

TEM 4: 63; TEM 8 Mini: 1.5)

He: Proximity echoing and posture. Proximity refers

to the distance between communicators

R: Then how about closeness, what does it indicate?

He: Closeness indicates threat.Distance means lack

of interest

Protocol 2 (Gap No. 7; Correct answer;

TEM 4: 69; TEM 8 Mini: 4)

Liu: Proximity posture and echoing. Proximity

means physical distance between speakers and the

first is closeness, it means intimacy or threat and

second isdistance, means formality or absence of

interest

Protocol 3 (Gap No. 7; Correct answer;

TEM 4: 78; TEM 8 Mini: 5)

Zhang: The third one is proximity, posture and

echoing. Proximity is the physical distance between

the speakers. It can use to, it can consciously be used

to convey the meaning of communicator. It is also

culture-bound

Zhang: Closeness for example can show intimacy or

threat,distance on the other hand canshow

formality and lack of interest

(continued)

7.3 Consistency Between Phase 1 and Phase 2...................