aurally
- adverb
- /ˈɔːrəli/
- Phonological awareness relates to the ability to aurally discriminate between sounds or to be sensitive to all units of sound.
- aurally discriminate
- learn aurally
- aurally identify
Examples
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Students learn most compositions aurally, although some vocal and instrumental parts are notated.
Academic text (1999) -
Teachers may need to keep the beat aurally or visually to keep the class together during inner-hearing activities.
Academic text (1994) -
Beginning students were still taught aurally at the feet of their teachers.
Academic text (2010) -
Listening experiences supply teachers with a means to aurally introduce students to music they may not otherwise encounter.
Academic text (2009) -
Have the ensemble learn the music aurally, especially if it is transmitted that way within the culture.
Academic text (2000) -
Like jazz, the pop tradition is, in large measure, an aurally transmitted tradition.
Academic text (1999) -
When you listen to music, do you aurally perceive sound?
Academic text (2012) -
Never having learned to read, she listens to books and absorbs the reading experience aurally.
Academic text (2014) -
Students interpret melodic elements of music aurally and visually (new learning fa and ti).
Academic text (2015) -
Students often learn melodies aurally by listening closely to their teachers.
Synonyms
In a way that can be heard
In a way that uses sound or the sense of hearing
In a way that has to do with sound
In a way that uses hearing
How Auditory
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word aurally comes from the Latin word auris, which means 'ear'. So, to learn aurally is to learn 'by ear', that is, by listening.