Listening to the Wounded

Listening to the Mind Listening

The following explains what mappings have been chosen for a sonification of several data channels from set containing a recording of the neural activity of a person listening to a piece of music. This piece, and also the sonification, is exactly 300 seconds long. My aim is to provide a sonification/composition that can be created in (near) real-time and takes its title literally. This is done b...

First Aid to the Wounded

the effect of authentic listening materials on the listening proficiency of efl learners in the intermediate level

having conducted the experiment and analysed the data, the researcher computed the groups mean scores and variances for the test relating to the research question. as the final atep, a t-test was conodonted for the hypothesis. as noted earlier, the significance level was determined at .05 and .01 respectively. the observed t-value was higher than the critical t-value at. 5 and .01 levels. conse...

Listening to the electrocardiogram.

THE concept of listening to the electro-cardiogram brings up an interesting question and one that most cardiologists, even ones with long experience in electro-cardiography, have largely ignored. What would you expect to hear if any of the usual leads were amplified by a suitable electronic device and the output were connected to a loud speaker or to head phones? Since the QRS complexes are the...

The Effect of Listening to English Songs on Iranian EFL Pre-intermediate Learners’ Listening Comprehension

The aim of this study was to find out whether listening to English songs can improve pre-intermediate EFL learners’ listening comprehension. To this end, a non-randomized pretest-posttest control group design as one of the quasi-experimental research designs was employed. The sample of the study consisted of 40 male and female English learners from two classes in an Institute in Marand, Iran. T...