What is the difference between comprehensibilty and intelligibility ?
Intelligibility refers to the listeners’ ability to understand the speaker’s message and comprehensibility refers to how easy or difficult it is for the listener to understand the speaker’s message !
What does CEFRCV stand for ?
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Companion Volume
How many participants were there in the study ?
Nine students !
What was the main domain of improvement across all participants in the study?
Related to prosodic features
What does SPC stand for?
Speaking and Pronunciation Course !
What Web based Application did the participants use ?
Voice Thread !
What 3 areas does the new phonological scales of the CEFRCV present ?
1) overall phonological control (intelligibility and comprehensibility)
2) sound articulation
3) prosodic features
Name 2 of the 5 drama task steps !!
1. Collaborative decision making process
2. Presentation in front of the class
3. Feedback from peers and instructor
4. Collaborative decision making process
5. Final Presentation in front of the class.
What sorts of things can negatively impact speaker intelligibility?
( ANY OF THE FOLLOWING !) word stress, non-linguistic features like anxiety, processing overload, listener’s unfamiliarity with speech variety