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Auditory Short‐Term Memory, Listening Comprehension, and the Input Hypothesis
Author(s) -
CALL MARY EMILY
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
tesol quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.737
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1545-7249
pISSN - 0039-8322
DOI - 10.2307/3586675
Subject(s) - short term memory , term (time) , psychology , listening comprehension , cognitive psychology , active listening , comprehension , linguistics , cognition , working memory , communication , neuroscience , physics , quantum mechanics , philosophy
This article reports the findings of a study which examined the relationship between auditory short‐term memory and listening skill. The study was designed to assess the contribution of short‐term memory for each of five types of auditory input to differences in standardized listening scores. Memory for syntactically arranged words proved to be the best predictor of listening skill in this battery of tests. The significance of the results for comprehension‐based teaching methodologies is discussed.