Audience Reception of Foreign Language News: A Study of College Students'' Comprehension and Memory of English Radio News
碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 新聞學系 === 89 === Mass communication researchers have found that listeners, unlike readers, can''t digest the news at their own pace, reread passages or check details. Listening comprehension is viewed as an active process by second language acquisition researchers. However...
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2001
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| Online Access: | http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/56880974004658315243 |
| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 新聞學系 === 89 === Mass communication researchers have found that listeners, unlike readers, can''t digest the news at their own pace, reread passages or check details. Listening comprehension is viewed as an active process by second language acquisition researchers. However there was no direct research that clarified how listeners were affected by news genres. An experiment was conducted in which 134 National Chengchi University students were presented with news stories in 4 different versions. The study found that most of the students comprehended more from the inverted pyramid structure than pyramid structure news Issue salience caused a significant difference in students'' memory of f news content. These findings suggest that knowledge of news structure and prior information would facilitate listening comprehension.
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