Second language learners perform worse than native speakers under adverse listening conditions, such as speech in noise (SPIN). No data are available on heritage language speakers' (early naturalistic interrupted learners') ability to perceive SPIN. The current study fills this gap and investigates the perception of Russian speech in multi-talker babble noise by the matched groups of high- and ...

Interest and self-efficacy beliefs are important components of motivational constructs that share some common characteristics influence learning. Studies examining how these two relate to each other, however, appear be few, especially in the area language To fill this gap, study aims investigate interest learning English proficiency listening, using a pre/post-design. This focused on exploring ...

This study aimed to explore what navigating strategies L2 learners use during listening in a self-regulated mobile learning environment and whether or not metacognitive awareness about mobile-assisted correlated text recall, incidental vocabulary duration when regulated their listening. Learners with low-level proficiency were randomly assigned an experimental group where they allowed control t...

a proficiency test is one of the language tests with the goal of assessing/evaluating the language learners' achievement. this test does not deal with language teaching and learning methods. in fact, in a proficiency test, we concentrate on determining the level of the testee’s ability in applying language at the time of administrating the test and for the test taker, it is not important t...

Learning a foreign language is a challenging process in which learners need motivation and encouragement through the use of modern techniques. The present paper investigates the effects digital stories may have on Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners’ listening comprehension. To this end, the researchers carried out a quasi-experimental research in a language institution in Tabriz (Iran). In t...

We analyze the topography of nonlinear functional connectivity in the EEG of two groups of German-native speakers, divided according to their English proficiency level (high or low), when listening to one text in German and one in English. Global interdependence was assessed in full-band EEG by means of an index of multivariate correlation derived from the normalized cross-mutual information be...

Franziska Lys, Northwestern University In this study, I investigate the use and integration of iPads in an advanced German conversation class. In particular, I am interested in analyzing how students learn with this new technology and how it affects the development of their oral proficiency level. Overall, my results suggest that iPads are well suited to practice listening and speaking proficie...

Sound discrimination helps babies acquire the vocabulary, morphology and syntax of their first language. Researchers have also shown a relationship between sound discrimination ability and second language (L2) experience. In this research, we investigated the correlation between the sound discrimination ability of lowintermediate level, adult Japanese learners of English and various measures of...