aural
- adjective
- /ˈɔrəl/
- Prepare: through sound-before-sight instruction, students develop instrumental skills and aural readiness for the task at hand.
- aural skills
- aural analysis
- aural discrimination
Behold, my friends, the ultimate keyboard experience for ultimate aural bliss.
- Behold, my friends, the ultimate keyboard experience for ultimate aural bliss.
- And again, I do think that it's something visual aural as in audio ish.
Examples
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Students need to have an aural image of the music they play before they play it.
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Traditionally, in Korea, aural and oral transmission has been a major means of teaching and learning music.
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Specific knowledge associated with this aural experience is often taught through direct teaching.
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The technology matters far less than the experience of accessing aural learning in a variety of ways.
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While notation-guided performance offers opportunities for aural skill development, it has limitations.
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New models of music education could benefit from involving practices that emphasize aural development over written competence.
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A Singing Map highlights the importance of aural skill development, specifically phonological awareness.
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Reading specialists have long understood the significance of auditory and aural skill processing for successful reading.
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Their survey results provided useful information for aural skills instructors, highlighting trends in pedagogy and preferred instructional resources.
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The teacher used a variety of methods to enhance the students' aural skills in music.
Synonyms
Relating to hearing or the way people hear sounds
Relating to the ear or to hearing
About hearing or the ability to hear sounds
Relating to the sense of hearing and how people hear sounds
How Auditory
Surface Forms
Etymology
Aural The word aural meaning 'relating to hearing' comes from the old word auris, which means 'ear'. So, aural describes things you hear or tests that check the ear.