There's more swearing on TV these days than there used to be, and, at the same time, the length of the bleeps has been reduced, giving us a clear aural outline of the words to assist us in our lip reading.
The preference expressed by some students to listen to verbal information via the podcasts rather than using other study techniques, such as reading books or notes, suggests a preference for an aural learning style.
Yes, I know, field recordings are usually the preserve of Wire reading Cafe Oto types, but they don't have to be flat aural documents of the sound of bus stops in Doncaster or whatever.
Visual and aural texts may be shared by projecting or copying, but written texts may be shared by reading aloud.
Recent research suggests that the process of reading activates those areas of the brain used in order to motivate articulation and those areas associated with aural perception of language.
Theater is a visual and aural medium as well as a verbal one of course, but forgive me if I spent the best part of my visit to a new exhibition of theatrical artifacts at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts just reading.
But to listen to Portal's new record, "Vexovoid," without reading the lyrics — assuming, let's say, that you have a total lack of interest in amoral fantasy novels loosely derived from Sumerian myth — is to focus on issues of surface and sound and aural design.
In their studies, stakeholders considered assessment of oral/aural skills irrelevant because societal values regarded reading skills as "academic" and indicative of test takers' diligence whereas speaking skills were considered "too basic to assess" (Nkosana, 2008, p. 305).
Some participants found aural learning to be a more useful method of assimilating the lecture content than reading: E: I'm much more likely to be taking it in listening to it than I am sitting at a table reading it.
For example, the term 'read' is often used in conjunction with visual images (Kress and van Leeuwen [1996]), but only written language can be read aloud; visual and aural texts can only be referred to in discussion.
