Testing Lecture Comprehension Through Listening-to-summarize Cloze Tasks

Table 6.12

Overall reported frequencies of cognitive operations in phase 1

Cognitive processes

Participants 12345678910111213141516

①②

Decoding

+

selective

attention

25 30 18 35 14 33 21 21 15 20 2

17 12 20 13 26 16 322

Reading the task

9

2

3 17

2

9

1

6

0

0 0

2

1

3

3

1 13

59

Memorizing words

6

9

6

4

6 13 10

5

5 10 0

4

0

1

3

5 14

87

Reading notes

8 17

8 11

3 10

9 10

6

7 2

5 11 14

6 14 16 141

Parsing the structure

2

2

1

3

3

1

1

0

4

3 0

6

0

2

1

6 13

35

Meaning

+

discourse

construction

8 15 11 16

4

6 12 10

5 11 1

9

5

6

1

4 16 124

Identifying key words

0

2

0

0

0

0

0

2

0

1 0

0

0

0

0

0

3

5

Building coherence

0

4

1

1

0

0

2

0

0

1 0

1

1

0

0

0

7

11

Inferring from notes

0

4

1

0

0

0

1

0

1

2 0

1

2

2

0

2

9

16

Inferring from task

1

1

3

3

0

4

2

0

2

5 0

1

2

2

1

0 12

27

Interpreting

6

2

4

5

1

1

4

3

1

1 0

3

0

2

0

1 13

34

Summarizing

0

2

2

4

0

1

1

3

0

0 0

1

0

0

0

0

7

14

Using schema

1

0

0

3

3

0

2

2

1

1 1

2

0

0

0

1 10

17

Monitoring

413293774230 205331467

Assessing comprehension

1

9

2

4

0

3

1

0

0

0 0

0

0

2

1

2

9

25

Checking quantity

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

0

0

1 0

0

0

0

1

0

3

4

Checking grammaticalacceptability

20030120110 10201914

Checking semantic coherence

1

4

0

2

3

3

2

4

1

1 0

1

0

1

1

0 12

24

Decision

• making

3 10 10

8

7

7 14 15

6 12 4

6

1

8

8 10 16 129

Individual total

③

40 68 41 68 28 53 54 50 28 46 7

34 18 39 25 43 16 642

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