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[lou_la]

Hi guys,

As part of my research into L2 speech processing, I'm currently developing a set of sentences to use in speech recognition tasks (as amazingly, no one has ever made anything suitable for students before!).

The sentences are either predictable ("the giraffe has a long neck") or not very predictable ("yesterday I hurt my neck") - at this stage, I need to check that students think the sentences are actually as predictable (or not!) as I expect.

As I sadly don't have students any more (*sob*), I now appeal to you lovely teachers for help with this research! I have four web-based surveys for each of the predictable and non-predictable sentences, with the last word of each sentence removed ("the giraffe has a long......") - the task is just to read and fill in the first word you think of to finish the sentence.

All surveys are done online, and while there are no right/wrong answers, it could pass as vocabulary practice. I can send feedback to participants about the responses given after the research is finished - other participants have enjoyed looking at these and comparing it to what they thought (everything is anonymous though!).

If you are interested in helping with the research, I'd be very, very appreciative if you could pass on a link to your students (don't overwhelm them, maybe just randomly pick one link Although if anyone wants to do more than one, that's fine). That's literally all you have to do - responses are automatically saved in a spreadsheet I can access. The vocabulary is pitched at intermediate/upper intermediate level, although weaker/stronger students are also welcome to take part!

Here are the links to the surveys (which have more details and instructions at the start):

Highly predictable:
List A: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1S7y9Y4QMGYVP0X0GkwjQA_SM6nVX289RTiM2M9IFygc/viewform
List B: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rsw6TPEOQCyAv2etxYGWnVsQsgfYJcv_jgasFtuHIAw/viewform
List C:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tsjqjvX5JzEPaBpvqKapdY8v-6xPocioU2owZuYhvFY/viewform
List D:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gaY2-M9RiiW3Byud1sQaD3mtR8nYqVrxrUmb7csfNOI/viewform

Not predictable:
List A: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lBZ4w9-1Rw0nXLvMMZxqi3jvfGjLOlAmk49TltkRjbQ/viewform
List B: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qF95jNjuLtS_-ZN1e8Sju6tAOVTgslLKr_QAauLqHVQ/viewform
List C: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cEUNK-JOwi6-3d2lggy49nG3BdZ7qhxR9WaDHhxosr0/viewform
List D: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gbE_iawsjeZIGGpDKRCFOsh21ZSBoDhflla7tPaYJrg/viewform

(Note: the study has received ethical clearance through UCL)


Thank you thank you thank you for your help! If you want more details, send me a PM and I'll get back to you.

Lou

[lou_la]

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to say thanks to anyone who's passed on the links to their students - I've had a few responses

If anyone else thinks their students might be interested, I still need quite a lot more data for the predictable sentences - all it takes to help out is passing on a link. I'd really appreciate any help!

Here are the high predictability sentences links again:

List A: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1S7y9Y4QMGYVP0X0GkwjQA_SM6nVX289RTiM2M9IFygc/viewform
List B: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rsw6TPEOQCyAv2etxYGWnVsQsgfYJcv_jgasFtuHIAw/viewform
List C:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tsjqjvX5JzEPaBpvqKapdY8v-6xPocioU2owZuYhvFY/viewform
List D:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gaY2-M9RiiW3Byud1sQaD3mtR8nYqVrxrUmb7csfNOI/viewform

Happy nearly weekend!
Lou