In testing LC in Tunisia, test-takers have always been given an audio-taped passage to listen to and then respond to a limited set of test items, such as wh-questions and true/false statements; thus underrepresenting the LC construct which was supposed to embrace as many LC test items as possible (Hidri 2010a2013a2013b2014).
The statue above, which stands in Ashgabat, the capital, illustrates the point nicely: every night at 8 P.M., the covers swing open and an audio recording of a passage is played, along with a video.
A body, naturally, needing some time to decompose, the audio piece marks the passage of time using the symbolism of a moon's cycle. .
Practice your comprehension skills by listening to the passage on the audio as you follow along below: "Ah, Stancil, I am so fortunata that you came into my life!
To mark where a certain sound begins or ends, users need only highlight the passage and the audio will be played as a reader scrolls to that portion of the text.
In Newland Park, Larkin and I sometimes read aloud from the favorite books that he kept closest to his chair (Hardy and Wilfred Owen and Christina Rossetti among them), or listened to jazz and the audio recordings he had made of passages from Shakespeare and others.
The songs switch up somewhat: There's a slow and contemplative part at the beginning of "Caged," a sludgy breakdown in "You Bury Me," and a couple of ominous spoken-word passages that sound like found audio letters.
The audio quality is flawed, especially in full-volume passages, in which the orchestra sound gets woofy.
Most passages are accompanied with a related audio clip.
Publishers claimed copyright infringement, noting that the computerized voice that reads passages violates copyright laws related to professional audio books.
