Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
English Language Teaching
Publication Date
1-5-2016
Abstract
Teachers' understanding of the process of speech perception could inform practice in listening classrooms. Catford (1950) developed a model for speech perception taking into account the influence of the acoustic features of the linguistic forms used by the speaker, whereby the listener 'identifies' and 'interprets' these linguistic forms based on the association between them and the context of speech. This paper critically reviews Catford's model and proposes an alternative one distinguishing between two levels of perceiving speech: word recognition and utterance comprehension. Smith and Nelson (1985) refer to these as 'intelligibility' and 'comprehensibility', respectively. The proposed model could inform classroom practice as well as curriculum and material design.
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ISSN
Publisher
Canadian Center of Science and Education
Volume
9
First Page
13
Last Page
19
Disciplines
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Zoghbor, Wafa Shahada, "A Model for Speech Processing in Second Language Listening Activities" (2016). All Works. 164.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/164
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yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series