3.6 Schedule and Procedures of the Study
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3.6 Schedule and Procedures of the Study
The pilot study took three weeks, and the schedule is shown in Table 9 below.
Table 9 Schedule of the Pilot Study
The procedures for each listening week (Week 2 and Week 3) were:
Step 1: The teacher gave out an information transfer task sheet and asked the participants to enter their names (2 minutes) ;
Step 2: The participants listened to a text with the following varied procedures for different groups:
The participants in Group A listened to the text just once at a moderate speed and accomplished the task sheet while listening (4 minutes) ;
The participants in Group B listened to the text three times at different speeds and accomplished the task sheet while listening. The first time listening was at a slow speed; the second time at a moderate speed; and the third time at a fast speed. According to Griffiths (cited from Ellis, 1994, p.274), a slow speech rate is 94-107 words per minute (wpm) or about 180 syllables per minute (spm) ; a moderate speech rate is 143-164 wpm or 270 spm; and a fast speech rate is 191-206 wpm or 360 spm. (11 minutes in total) ;
The participants in Group C listened to the text three times and accomplished the task sheet while listening, just as Group B did. Besides, before the listening, according to the clues from the information transfer task sheet and the topic of the upcoming listening task announced by the teacher, the participants spent 5 minutes working in pairs on a topic-familiarization activity, which included brainstorming, guessing, and discussion on the listening topic to produce a schema about the topic (16 minutes in total). It should be noted that in the topic-familiarization activity, the teacher did not expose the participants to any of the target words but only the topic of the listening text.
Step 3: The teacher collected the information transfer task sheet from the participants (2 minutes) ;
Step 4: The teacher gave out the Form Test sheets. The participants wrote their names and finished the test. The teacher collected the test sheets (5 minutes) ;
Step 5: The teacher gave out the Reception Test sheets. The participants wrote their names and finished the test. The teacher collected the test sheets (5 minutes) ;
Step 6: The teacher gave out the Production Test sheets. The participants wrote their names and finished the test. The teacher collected the test sheets (5 minutes). 元认知策略研究:二语听力理解与附带词汇习得(英文版)