Section 3 recording
Dialect Research Project
You will hear an Australian student called Callum discussing his linguistics project on regional dialects with his British tutor, Dr Eleanor Brooks.
2 speakers · Australian and British English · 4:21
In the real test you hear each recording once. Read the questions first, then play it through without pausing.
Go to the questions ↓Questions 1–6
What comment does the tutor make about each of the following components of Callum's project? Choose 6 answers from the box and write the correct letter, A–H, next to Questions 1–6.
Comments
- Arequires formal ethical clearance before starting
- Bwill take up too much time to complete
- Cneeds a larger sample size to be reliable
- Dshould be postponed until the second term
- Eproduces data that is difficult to categorise
- Fhas already been covered sufficiently in previous studies
- Gis essential for verifying the initial hypothesis
- Hsuffers from poor audio quality
1pilot questionnaire
2archival audio recordings
3street interviews
4automated acoustic analysis
5teen focus groups
6interactive dialect map
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