AbstractThis study aims to highlight the key roles played by metacognitive strategies training in the development of listening comprehension skill and self-regulation strategies of EFL learners. The participants of this study (N = 60) were female Iranian students assigned to two groups of experimental and control in Kish English Language Institute. Learners in the experimental group recei...

In this paper we discuss aspects of our work in developing performance systems that are geared towards humanmachine co-performance with a particular emphasis on improvisation. We present one particular system, FILTER, which was created in the context of a larger project related to artificial intelligence and performance, and has been tested in the context of our electro-acoustic performance tri...

Sound event detection in real world environments has attracted significant research interest recently because of it’s applications in popular fields such as machine hearing and automated surveillance, as well as in sound scene understanding. This paper considers continuous robust sound event detection, which means multiple overlapped sound events in different types of interfering noise. First, ...

This paper presents the concept and structure of a responsive music shuffling system, a popular playing mode but with contextawareness. We investigate current technologies for possible types of music listening applications made by multi-disciplinary design issue. Context-awareness, interactive soundscape, calm and ambient technology, and wearable computing are considered in the design process o...

After a short survey of the goals of the current standardization activities within MPEG-4 Audio, an introduction to the concept of the verification model (VM) based codec development is given and the current status of the VM development is described. The results of listening tests and core experiments are addressed briefly in order to allow a comparison of the expected codec efficiency with tha...

While listening plays an important role in the process of foreign/second language learning, different factors can affect this process. This study was designed to assess the relationship between listening anxiety and metacognitive strategy awareness with a special interest in the role of gender and proficiency level. In order to conduct this survey, two instruments including the Metacognitive Aw...

This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of metacognitive strategy instruction intervention on reducing language listening anxiety of Iranian EFL learners in the light of 2 listening metacognitive strategy instruction models of Integrated Experiential Learning Task (IELT) (Goh, 2010) and Metacognitive pedagogical Sequence (MPS) (Vandergrift, 2004). Participants were 63 B1 level learners who...

Testing the comprehension of spoken language is of primary importance. A lot of factors may affect the performance of EFL learners on listening comprehension tests, among which are the use of visual advance organizers, and types of listening passages (dialogues or monologues). As B-Ikeguchi (1997) states a few studies have been carried out on the effects of these factors on EFL learners’ listen...

Objectives: The aim of this review was to provide an overview of the use of listening to the Holy Qur’an recitation (HQR) therapy in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Methods: Articles in the last 10 years were reviewed to obtain data about the application of listening to the HQR and its effect on physiological parameters and neuropsychological functions. Results: Twenty-four articles were ...