Analytic Listening: A New Approach to Ear-Training
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Description: Paper on a method for ear-training and auditory skill assessment of students of phonetics.
ANALYTIC LISTENING: A NEW APPROACH TO EAR-TRAINING Department of Phonetics and Linguistics ANALYTIC LISTENING: A NEW APPROACH TO EAR-TRAINING Michael ASHBY, John MAIDMENT and Evelyn ABBERTON In this paper we outline a new method for training and assessing auditory skills in students of phonetics, which has now been introduced into all the undergraduate programmes involving phonetics at UCL. Conventional ear-training uses dictated or recorded material of approximately phrase length, and requires students to transcribe their answers in full starting from a blank sheet of paper. The new technique, called Analytic Listening, involves multiple-choice testing. Each question focuses the students' attention upon one relevant phonetic parameter at a time and their perception is then tested with a short battery of varied stimuli. They are not asked to transcribe what they hear, but to choose from a fixed range of responses. Analytic Listening offers rapid and simple marking and feedback, leads to statistically reliable profiles of students' auditory skills, and reduces the emphasis on symbols and transcription. Because it focuses upon and tests an explicit range of relevant phonetic parameters, it permits auditory-skill benchmarks to be incorporated into syllabus design. At the same time, it encourages a realistic view of the power and limitations of humanly-made phonetic judgements alongside instrumental measurements of speech, which increasingly form a part of classroom training.
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