Speech communication is composed of two processes, speech uttering and listening comprehension. Comprehension in speech communication involves understanding the speech through its acoustic clues, that is achieving on-line understanding by drawing a me...
Speech communication is composed of two processes, speech uttering and listening comprehension. Comprehension in speech communication involves understanding the speech through its acoustic clues, that is achieving on-line understanding by drawing a mental representation from the hearer's stored memory, which corresponds to the auditory perceptual representation that is, acoustic clues which he gets from the stream the speaker's momentary speech. Non-native speakers' short-term memory span may be much shorter in understanding English utterances, which makes speech sounds and their meaning discrete. Furthermore, Korean EFL students learn written English in letters, which makes it very difficult for them to draw auditory mental representation by the stimuli of the acoustic clues from real speech. These are assumed to be responsible for their longer perceptual distance. Shortening the perceptual distance will cure their poor listening comprehension of English speech. In this study, I have suggested a CALL package which contains various effective ways of doing massed or spaced repetition tasks which promote shortening of the auditory perceptual distance and lengthening of listening units. I am confident that this package will contribute to the production of Korean EFL students who have 'I(intelligibility) + 1' listening comprehension.