Undergraduate Students’ Response Characteristics to Hoarse and Normal Lecture Voice: A Preliminary Study

University Students' Response Characteristics to Hoarse and Normal Lecture Voice in Multimedia Class

“…The study findings are similar to those of Song(2015) on the response characteristics to hoarse voice and normal voice by utilizing voice reading samples of two females with mutually different sound quality [5]. In addition, these findings are similar to those of Song(2016) on the response characteristics from 20 female university students only in one department to hoarse and normal lecture voice samples by same professor [7]. The present study also confirms what previous studies have found regarding speakers with voice disorders [3,4].…”

“…The adjective checklist used in this study was the similar as that used in the studies by Shin & Lee(2009) and also by Song(2015Song( , 2016) with some modifications [5,6,7]. Twenty five adjectives with clear positive and negative feelings were respectively organized and randomly presented.…”

“…Subjects were asked to listen to the hoarse and normal lecture voice samples and check each adjective which matched the feelings which arose when they listened. And 10 items each on feeling, intelligibility, prosody, loudness, and speech rate of the lecture voice were organized with some modifications of Song's questionnaire in order to make a questionnaire with a total of 20 questions [5,7]( Appendix 1). The preferred lecture voice was characterized to be bright, confident, clean and pleasant, delightful, enthusiastic, soft and kind, intelligible, dynamic in tone levels, loud and appropriate speed.…”