Welcome and thank you for volunteering to participate in the study. My name is Jingjing Huang. I am a Ph. D student from the School of Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. This study is about the effects of acoustic factors (speech rate and durations) of online L2 English lectures on L1 Chinese listeners’ comprehension of the contents.
If you decide to participate in this study, in the following pages, you will listen to nine short lectures in English, and answer follow-up questions about the content you listen to. The total time to finish the activities will be around 60 minutes. I will not audio/video record your listening process. The only information adopted from the study is the answers you make to the questions. And it will be completely anonymous and only be used for this study and related publications.
Please remember that this is completely voluntary. You are free to leave the survey at any time you want to without any penalty. Should you have any questions, please contact me at hjingjing@vt.edu. Thank you!