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Visentin, Chiara, Pellegatti, Matteo, Garraffa, Maria 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1767-424X, Di Domenico, Alberto and Prodi, Nicola
(2023)
Be quiet! Effects of competing speakers and individual characteristics on listening comprehension for primary school students.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20 (6).
ISSN 1660-4601
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Abstract
Students learn in noisy classrooms, where the main sources of noise are their own voices. In this sound environment, students are not equally at risk from background noise interference during lessons, due to the moderation effect of the individual characteristics on the listening conditions. This study investigates the effect of the number of competing speakers on listening comprehension and whether this is modulated by selective attention skills, working memory, and noise sensitivity. Seventy-one primary school students aged 10 to 13 years completed a sentence comprehension task in three listening conditions: quiet, two competing speakers, and four competing speakers. Outcome measures were accuracy, listening effort (response times and self-reported), motivation, and confidence in completing the task. Individual characteristics were assessed in quiet. Results showed that the number of competing speakers has no direct effects on the task, whilst the individual characteristics were found to moderate the effect of the listening conditions. Selective attention moderated the effects on accuracy and response times, working memory on motivation, and noise sensitivity on both perceived effort and confidence. Students with low cognitive abilities and high noise sensitivity were found to be particularly at risk in the condition with two competing speakers.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Lifespan Health |
| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2023 10:30 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2023 03:34 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/91527 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph20064822 |
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