Date of Award
4-6-2018
Document Type
Honors Thesis
First Advisor
Darah Regal
Abstract
The objective of this study is to examine indications of a significant difference in listening ability between native English speakers and English as a Second Language (ESL) students in quiet and background noise specifically on the AZBIO Sentence test. Three Language groups were analyzed: Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. AZBIO lists were used to assess ESL students' ability to repeat sentences. An analysis of errors was completed to determine variance and similarities between the four language groups. Native English speakers had no difficulty repeating sentences in either condition, ESL students' data suggested more difficulty in both quiet and background noise and a variance in age of acquisition of English.
Recommended Citation
Wiist, Alexandra, "AZBIO Sentence Accuracy for English as a Second Language Adults in Quiet and Background Noise" (2018). Honors Theses. 194.
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/194/
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors/194
Subject Area
English as Second Language; English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers; Speech disorders; AZBIO
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/194/