Nonnative English Speaker Performance on the Basic English Lexicon (BEL) Sentences.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine sentence-recognition performance for a large, diverse group of nonnative speakers of English on the recently developed Basic English Lexicon (BEL) sentence materials and to determine whether BEL sentence lists are equated in difficulty for this popul...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 792 - 805 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=90607144&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 90607144 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2013 vid: 56 iid: 3 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 90607144 10.1044/1092-4388(2012/12-0178) ppf: 792 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 704KB tig: atl: Nonnative English Speaker Performance on the Basic English Lexicon (BEL) Sentences. aug: au: Rimikis, Stacey Smiljanic, Rajka Calandruccio, Lauren Bacon, Sid Healy, Eric affil: Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing University of Texas, Austin su: United States Analysis of variance Immigrants Cultural pluralism Computer software Statistical correlation English as a foreign language Questionnaires Research funding Speech evaluation Speech perception Statistics Data analysis Repeated measures design Descriptive statistics sug: subj: Analysis of variance Immigrants Cultural pluralism United States Software publishers (except video game publishers) Computer, computer peripheral and pre-packaged software merchant wholesalers Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software Merchant Wholesalers Computer and software stores Language Schools Computer software Statistical correlation English as a foreign language Questionnaires Research funding Speech evaluation Speech perception Statistics Data analysis Repeated measures design Descriptive statistics keyword: audiology cultural and linguistic diversity speech perception audiology cultural and linguistic diversity speech perception ab: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine sentence-recognition performance for a large, diverse group of nonnative speakers of English on the recently developed Basic English Lexicon (BEL) sentence materials and to determine whether BEL sentence lists are equated in difficulty for this population. Method: The BEL sentences were presented to 102 nonnative speakers of English with normal hearing and varied linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Five hundred sentences were presented mixed with noise spectrally matched to the target sentences. Subjects completed an online questionnaire providing detailed demographic and linguistic information. Listeners’ spoken English proficiency was also assessed using the Versant English Test (Pearson Education, 2010). Results: Nonnative listeners showed equal word-recognition performance for 3 groups of BEL sentence lists, each group containing sentence lists that had equivalent difficulty. In addition, spoken language proficiency and several demographic and linguistic factors were significantly correlated with BEL performance. Conclusion: The BEL sentence materials have been tested on a large cohort of nonnative speakers of English and have been found to be appropriate for use in speech-perception testing with this population. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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