Investigation of the listening environment for lower grade students in elementary school using subjective tests

Chan-Jae Park; Chan-Hoon Haan

doi:10.7776/ASK.2021.40.3.201

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Investigation of the listening environment for lower grade students in elementary school using subjective tests 주관적 평가법을 이용한초등학교 저학년 교실의 청취환경 조사

31 May 2021. pp. 201-212

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Abstract

The present study was conducted as a pilot investigation to suggest the standards of acoustic performance for classrooms suitable for incomplete hearing people such as children under 9 years of age. Subjective evaluations such as questionnaire and speech intelligibility test were conducted to 264 students at two elementary schools in Cheong-ju in order to analyze the characteristics of the listening environment in the classrooms of the lower grades in elementary school. The survey was undertaken with a total of 264 students at two elementary schools in Cheong-ju, and investigated their satisfaction with the classroom listening environment. As a result, students responded that the most helpful information type for understanding class content is the voice of teacher. In addition, the volume of the current teacher's voice is normal, and the level of clarity is highly satisfactory. As for the acoustic performance of the classroom, the opinion that the noise was normal and the reverberation was very short was found to be dominant in overall satisfaction with the listening environment. Meanwhile, as a result of speech intelligibility test using the word list selected for the lower grade students of elementary school, it could be inferred that the longitudinal axis distance from the sound source in the case of 8-year-olds is a factor that affects speech recognition.

Keywords

Classroom acoustics

Incomplete hearing people

Lower Grade Student

Listening environment

Questionnaire survey

Speech intelligibility test

본 연구는 만 9세 이하 아동과 같은 청력 비완전자에게 적합한 교실의 음향성능 기준을 제시하기 위한 사전연구로써 수행되었다. 이를 위해 초등학교 저학년 교실의 청취환경 특성을 분석하기 위하여 청주시 소재 초등학교 2곳에서 총 264명의 학생을 대상으로 설문조사 및 음성명료도 평가와 같은 주관적 평가를 진행했다. 설문조사 결과 학생들이 수업 내용 이해에 가장 도움이 되는 정보형식은 교사의 음성이라고 응답했다. 또한 현재 교사의 음성에 대해 음량은 ‘보통’ 수준이며 명료도에는 높은 만족도를 보이고 있었다. 교실의 음향성능에 대해서도 소음의 경우 ‘보통’이며 잔향감은 ‘매우 짧다’는 의견이 가장 많아서 청취환경에 대한 전반적인 만족도가 높은 편인 것으로 파악되었다. 또한 초등학교 저학년 학생들을 위해 선별된 시험용 단어목록을 이용해 음성명료도 평가를 수행한 결과 만 8세 아동의 경우 음원으로부터의 종축거리가 음성인지에 영향을 미치는 요인임을 유추해볼 수 있었다.

키워드

교실음향

청력 비완전자

초등학교 저학년

청취환경

설문 조사

음성명료도 평가

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Publisher :The Acoustical Society of Korea
Publisher(Ko) :한국음향학회
Journal Title :The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
Journal Title(Ko) :한국음향학회지
Volume : 40
No :3
Pages :201-212
Received Date : 2021-03-30
Revised Date : 2021-05-13
Accepted Date : 2021-05-20
DOI :https://doi.org/10.7776/ASK.2021.40.3.201

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea ISSN:1225-4428(Print) 2287-3775(Online) 한국음향학회지

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