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The Academic Listening Self‐rating Questionnaire (ALSA)

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Title: The Academic Listening Self-rating Questionnaire (ALSA)

Name: Vahid Aryadoust, Ph.D., and Christine C. M. Goh, Ph.D.

Abstract:
The Academic Listening Self-rating Questionnaire (ALSA) is a 47-item self-appraisal tool which
helps language learners evaluate their own academic listening skills (Aryadoust, Goh, & Lee,
2012). The underlying dimensions of ALSA consist of linguistic components and prosody,
cognitive processing skills, relating input to other materials, note-taking, memory and
concentration, and lecture structure. The psychometric quality of ALSA has been studied using
the Rating Scale Rasch model, structural equation modeling, and correlation analyses. The ALSA
can be used to raise tertiary-level students’ awareness of their academic listening ability, and of
the elements of academic discourse such as lectures and seminars that may affect their
academic achievement. Further research is being undertaken to provide validity evidence for
two versions of the instrument in Chinese and Turkish, respectively.

Keywords: Academic listening, Second language listening, Self-rating lecture comprehension

APA Citation: Aryadoust, V., & Goh, C. C. M. (2017). The academic listening self-rating
questionnaire (ALSA). In D. L. Worthington & G. Bodie (Eds.), Sourcebook of listening research:
Methodology and measures (pp. XXX). USA: John Wiley & Sons.

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