MEMORIA DI LAVORO NELLA COMPRENSIONE DELL’ASCOLTO IN STUDENTI ALGERINI DI LINGUA ITALIANA
WORK MEMORY IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF LISTENING IN ITALIAN LANGUAGE STUDENTS

Summary/Abstract: This article examine the capacity of working memory (WM) in listening comprehension in three languages (Arabic, French and Italian) in Algerian students. We composed a 54 students, distributed in three groups (1 trilingual end 2 monolingual), and we submitted him a Listening Span Test (LST). Before starting the LST the students answered a questionnaire concerning their CV, they are also tested by self-assessment and in a level test. This comparative study, we revealed that the capacity of WM in listening comprehension in students with a single language have performances better than the capacity of WM in listening comprehension in students with three languages.

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