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The Relative Effectiveness of Earphones and Loudspeakers as a Means of Presenting a Listening Test in a Foreign Language
Author(s) -
Spencer Richard E.,
Seguin Edmond L.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1964.tb04510.x
Subject(s) - loudspeaker , active listening , citation , test (biology) , state (computer science) , foreign language , computer science , linguistics , psychology , library science , programming language , communication , philosophy , electrical engineering , engineering , paleontology , biology
The hypotheses made above are as unsubstantiated as any others in practice today. They purport only to demonstrate that the oral-aural approach implies many assumptions which may easily prove to be fallacious. A reversal to old procedures is certainly not advocated. Foreseeable future difficulties do not justify a return to a method which has proved unsatisfactory. Difficulty does not imply danger. The danger arises from designing a methodology based on a partial, hasty, untested approach to those difficulties.