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Showing 1 to 20 of 1542 for “"Listening"”.
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The Effect of Listening Skills Instruction on Listening Comprehension
… to determine if there was a difference in the listening comprehension achievement scores of students who received listening skills instruction, and students who received traditional instruction only. Two fifth grade intact classrooms were used as the sample. The subjects consisted of 25 …
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Investigating the listening construct underlying listening-to-summarize tasks
… language skills in task performance, e.g., listening-speaking or listening-reading-speaking, are increasingly being used in second language assessment, including in high-stakes English exams such as the TOEFL iBT and PTE Academic. Although recent studies (Plakans, 2008; Sawaki, Quinlan, & …
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Developing Listening Skills
The aim of my paper is to examine the listening skill more substantially; what listening is; how the listening process takes place. I will try to examine why one of the most important skills is neglected in Hungary and how it could be taught more effectively. In the last part of my paper I would …
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Music-listening systems
… origins of the early stages of music listening in humans, using both experimental and computer-modeling approaches. The results of this research enable the construction of automatic machine-listening systems that can make human-like judgments about short musical stimuli. New models are …
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Listening by Synthesizing
Generative audio models offer a scalable solution for producing a rich variety of sounds. This can be useful for practical tasks, like sound design in music, film, and other media. However, these models overwhelmingly rely on deep neural networks, and their massive complexity hinders our ability to …
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The Listening Artist: On Listening as an Artistic Practice beyond Sound Art
… evidencing that: a) There is the position of the listening artist that is a distinct practice to that of the sound artist, operating with quite different political, philosophical and aesthetic concerns. b) Sound art’s canon of listening is insufficient for accounting for the range of listening at …
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The Art of Listening
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Music Listening as Therapy
<p>Music is a universal phenomenon and is a real, physical thing. It is processed in neural circuits that overlap with language circuits, and it exerts cognitive, emotional, and physiological effects on humans. Many of those effects are therapeutic, such as reduced symptoms of physical and mental …
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Listening through the cracks
Kyne is an outsider: a white, Danish girl, living in a country where the majority are blacks and the few whites are English. Her sentiments of belonging and integration are lost when her family's farms are taken away by the dictatorship government in 2004. The country, Zimbabwe, spirals out of …
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Creating music by listening
… process of creating music using experience from listening to examples. Our unbiased signal-based solution models the life cycle of listening, composing, and performing, turning the machine into an active musician, instead of simply an instrument. We accomplish this through an analysis-synthesis …
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Listening with generative models
This thesis extends classic traditions in perception by leveraging contemporary tools to build and apply rich generative models that describe what we hear. First, I present a hierarchical Bayesian auditory scene synthesis model to address the perceptual organization of sound into sources and …
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Diagnosing L2 English Learners’ Listening comprehension abilities with Scripted and Unscripted Listening Texts
L2 listening research has moved toward a focus on understanding the process of listening. However, there are still few detailed studies of L2 listening that reveal learners’ comprehension processes when listening to scripted and unscripted listening texts. Studies in which such processing has been …
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A Question of Listening: Nancean Resonance and Listening in the Work of Charlie Chaplin
… Charlie Chaplin to <br/> examine a question of listening posed by Jean-Luc Nancy, “Is listening <br/> something of which philosophy is capable” (Nancy 2007:1)? Drawing on the <br/> work of Nancy, Jacques Derrida and Gayatri Spivak, I consider a claim that <br/> philosophy has failed to address …
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An Analysis of Listening Experiences
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Wupperthal: listening to the past
The community of the Wupperthal Mission Station and its satellite stations, forms the focus of this text. The mission is situated in the Tra-Tra River Valley in the Cederberg Mountains of the Western Cape. In this text, I have sketched a series of vignettes to portray the lives of certain …
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Learning through looking and listening
In order to read emotions, understand actions or anticipate intentions, humans need efficient ways of gathering information about each other. In particular, gaze and speech are rich sources of information about other peoples' thoughts. This thesis investigates these modes. In the first part of the …
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ALJI: Active Listening Journal Interaction
… or assessing their own mental health. Active Listening Journal Interaction (ALJI) is a computer program that seeks to identify and refer people suffering with depression to mental health support services. It does this through analyzing personal journal entries using machine learning, and then …
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The Autonomic Correlates of Listening Effort
For those with hearing impairment, listening in daily life communication requires significant mental effort, even when using a hearing aid. This increased daily effort causes fatigue and reduced well-being. In recent years, researchers have utilised physiological measures to quantify listening …
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