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Auditory skills and listening comprehension in English second language learners in Grade 1
Dissertation (MCommunication Pathology)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/65565 Auditory skills and listening comprehension in English second language learners in Grade 1 Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha) katelynanderssen@gmail.com Pottas, Lidia Anderssen, Kate-Lyn UCTD Dissertation (MCommunication Pathology)--University of Pretoria, 2017. Background: Studies indicate that difficulties English second language (ESL) learners experience in the classroom may not only be attributed to listening comprehension of the language of learning and teaching (LoLT). Limited research is available on the auditory skills and listening comprehension in ESL learners younger than 12 years. Aim: To determine which areas of auditory skills and listening comprehension Grade 1 ESL learners experienced most difficulty with. Method: A static two-group comparison design was used. Data were collected at two similar independent urban schools from learners between the ages of 72-90 months. The research group were ESL learners (n=15) exposed to English for 12-18 months. The control group were English first language (EFL) learners (n=15). The Digits-in-noise (DIN), Children’s Auditory Processing Performance Scale (CHAPPS), and Listening Comprehension Test 2 (LCT-2) were used. Six Grade 1 teachers participated in the study. Results: Majority of the participants (n=25) passed the DIN, however, despite having normal hearing some EFL (n=1) and ESL (n=4) participants failed the test. In the overall scores for the CHAPPS and LCT-2, significant differences were found between the two groups (p= 0.024; p=0.001). Strong agreements were found between the ESL participants’ test results for the CHAPPS and LCT-2, indicating that they experience significant difficulties with higher linguistically dependent auditory skills and listening comprehension tasks. Conclusion: ESL participants achieved poorer scores as the listening tasks became more linguistically demanding. Specific layers of auditory skill and listening comprehension difficulties when listening in their LoLT were identified in the ESL learners. Targeted intervention and curriculum support with a speech-language therapist can be given. Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology MCommunication Pathology Unrestricted 2018-07-16T07:53:43Z 2018-07-16T07:53:43Z 2018/04/25 2017 Dissertation Anderssen, K 2017, Auditory skills and listening comprehension in English second language learners in Grade 1, MCommunication Pathology Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65565> A2018 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65565 en © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Auditory skills and listening comprehension in English second language learners in Grade 1 |
| title | Auditory skills and listening comprehension in English second language learners in Grade 1 |
| title_full | Auditory skills and listening comprehension in English second language learners in Grade 1 |
| title_fullStr | Auditory skills and listening comprehension in English second language learners in Grade 1 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Auditory skills and listening comprehension in English second language learners in Grade 1 |
| title_short | Auditory skills and listening comprehension in English second language learners in Grade 1 |
| title_sort | auditory skills and listening comprehension in english second language learners in grade 1 |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65565 |