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Article published In: Issues in the Teaching and Learning of Japanese
Edited by Nicolette Bramley and Naoko Hanamura
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 15] 1998
► pp. 139–154

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Listening strategies used by adult learners of Japanese to comprehend satellite television programs

 | Griffith University
 | Griffith University
Published online: 1 January 1998
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aralss.15.09seo
Abstract
This paper identifies listening comprehension strategies from the perspective of cognitive psychology, with a focus on the experience of Australian learners of Japanese as a foreign language (L2). In this study, a listening strategy is conceptualised as a mental operation undertaken by a learner to solve a listening comprehension problem in a non-interactional situation. Reading researchers in L2 identified one of the variables which affects text comprehension as formal schema or discourse organisation of text (Meyer and Freedle, 1984; Carrell and Eisterhold, 1988; Carrell, 1991). However, this variable has not been the subject of intensive and extensive research in L2 listening and consequently, there is little empirical evidence which has explored this important variable. With the increased availability of media technology, satellite programs offer rich content and have the potential to provide such information. This paper investigates how news and drama texts may affect the choice of listener strategies, and discusses how the strategies selected by listeners relate to L2 learners’ language proficiency. To collect data on strategies, an introspective ‘think-aloud’ procedure is used and the results are analysed quantitatively.
日本語要旨
第三三語読解研究分野では、ディスコース(文構造)が読解に 影響を及ぼす・つの要|刈と見なされているが、第二λ16聴解研 究分野では、まだこの要|材に関するデータも乏しく未研究に等 しいのが現状である。
本研究は、近年の著しいメディアテクノロジーの発展によ り、サテライト番組がこの要因研究に最適であることに注目 し、特にニュースとドラマの二つの異なる番組を聴く際、聴解 者のストラテジー選択がどう違うか、聴解者の第二言語能力と の因果関係にも焦点をおき言及する。
本稿で使用するストラテジーとは、サテライト番組を理解 する際の聴解問題を処理する知的過程と定義する。被験者はオ ーストラリア英語を母語とする成人日本語学習者が対象で、デ ーター収集には発話思考法CThink-aloud)、又、その結果は量 分析法を使用した。
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