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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Listening difficulties"”.
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A metacognitive approach to hearing and listening in older adults
… of life. Yet, many older adults respond to listening challenges with maladaptive strategies, such as delayed help-seeking or denial, even when aware of their difficulties. This thesis examined this paradox through the lens of metacognition, focusing on how monitoring, beliefs, and …
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Cognitive and Auditory Factors Underlying Auditory Spatial Attention in Younger and Older Adults
Listening to speech with competing speech in the background is challenging and becomes harder with age. Three experiments examined the auditory and cognitive aspects of auditory spatial attention in conditions in which the location of the target was uncertain. In all experiments, word …
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Graph theory analysis of functional and structural connectome: Links to Auditory Processing Disorder
… and a healthy control (HC) group without hearing difficulties (N = 29). The second study examined the structural connection and rich-club organisation in children with APD (N = 29) and HCs (N = 29) from the same cohort. In both studies, we also explored the brain-behaviour relationship between …
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ASSESSING L2 CHINESE LISTENING USING AUTHENTICATED SPOKEN TEXTS
… authenticated spoken texts to test L2 Chinese listening comprehension. The spoken texts used in the study were created using an “authenticating” technique, in which scripted spoken Chinese texts were infused with characteristics of real-world, unscripted spoken Chinese. In the first part of the …
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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 …