| dc.description.abstract | English listening comprehension is an important skill for communication. At formal English, teacher usually speak slowly and clearly in English listening instruction, and reduced forms--the phonological simplification or variations often found in Spoken English--are lost in classroom. The learners usually aren’t familiar with reduced forms. The unfamiliarity with reduced forms is one of the main factors that results in listening difficult. To promote the awareness of reduced forms, exposing learners to reduced forms with authentic listening environment are general suggestion. Therefore, the study proposed a film-based reduced forms listening comprehension system for assisting listening comprehension.
The research designed the captions needed in the experiment and mainly probes
into the full text caption, using reduced forms as the keyword captions, and keyword captions added graphical annotation to observe the different effects they have on listening comprehension.
Through the analysis of the results of using the methods of a self-edited reduced forms listening comprehension test, analysis of survey results, the experiment outcome verifies that, this research has found out that using reduced forms as the keyword captions, and added graphical annotation is effective in assisting listening comprehension. After the three groups using the system, they all progressive on listening test of reduced forms.
In another question, using different types of question in the experiment, it was found that with different types of question, using reduced forms as the keyword captions, and added graphical annotation group is performed better than just using reduced forms as the keyword captions group at the listen to the election and underlining type of question.
From the results of survey analysis, we gained the suggestions about how to improve the system, and the experimental group subjects showed the positive attitude in system satisfaction. They also approve the effects of the system in many aspects of their listening.
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