Group-work dynamics has been assumed to explain a great part of impact in language learningand teaching in specific contexts or for particular skills. In the same vein, structural accuracy hasbeen significant in foreign language learning. Today, foreign language learning is not limited tothe classroom environment. In addition, it encompasses the learner’s lives, so that selfregulation’srole see...

the present research was an attempt to provide new evidence for the efficacy of task-based techniques to speaking proficiency development. the primary focus of the study was to investigate the effects of task-based techniques on speaking proficiency development. in the second place, it tried to scrutinize the effect of gender on speaking proficiency development under task-based principles of la...

Normalized frequency data of X-JToBI prosodic labels were used to automatically discriminate 4 speech registers –academic presentation, simulated public speaking, dialogue, and reproduction speech– of the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ). It turned out that the use of prosodic label frequency information and speaking rate could achieve more than 85% accuracy (closed data). It also turned ou...

english passive has always been regarded as a challenge by farsi-speaking efl learners. despite the presence of many linguistic and pedagogical approaches in studying and teaching english passive, there still appears to be a pedagogical gap facing farsi-speaking efl learners dealing with this construction. taking up the cognitive-construction grammar perspective, the present article aims to inv...

This study was an attempt to investigate what metacognitive strategies are specifically employed by English learners when it comes to different speaking task types.60 students at advanced level (female) were randomly selected and given an OPT as a test of homogeneity. They were assigned to experimental and control groups. The MS questionnaire (Oxford, 1990) was also administered to see what MS ...

We present a novel method to detect when a person is speaking using respiratory measurements collected in the natural enviroment. A speaker’s respiration pattern is sampled from a respiratory inductive plethysmograph (RIP) band worn around the speaker’s chest. Ratio of inhalation duration to exhalation duration (IE ratio) has traditionally been used to detect speaking in controlled lab environm...

Automatic speech recognition technology is becoming increasingly widespread in many applications. For dictation tasks, where a single talker is to use the system for long periods of time, the high recognition accuracies obtained are in part due to the user performing a lengthy enrolment procedure to ‘tune’ the parameters of the recogniser to their particular voice characteristics and speaking s...