| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In recent years, the globalizing society demands more sophisticated abilities to communicate directly with the people from different countries. The current research examined abilities required for the dialogic situations and conducted studies on test development in order to evaluate speech communication abilities. During this research project, the following three phases were conducted: 1) historical analysis and evaluation on the English listening comprehension tests of the National Center Test, 2) constructions of a quantitative model to represent relationship between characteristics of speech sound and impressions of the speaker’s personality, and 3) experiments to evaluate English listening testing utilizing converted speech sounds whose fundamental frequencies were changed.
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