III Listening comprehension is a multifaceted L2 skill and its actual mastery has proved challenging for many EFL learners (Matthews, 2018). Pre-listening supports may help us change the dire situation in developing effective listening competence. Therefore, the current study tried to examine the effect of vocabulary preparation, grammar instruction and background knowledge activatio...

An important area of development for second language (L2) students is learning how to share ideas with an audience through writing. Some researchers suggest that writing is a primary language skill that holds greater challenges for L2 learners than speaking, listening, or reading (Bell & Burnaby, 1984; Bialystok, 1978; Brown & Yule, 1983; Nunan, 1989; White, 1981). Writing skills are especially...

The purpose of this study was to identify Iranian EFL learner’s awareness degree of listening factors and strategies and the effect of input modification in improvement of listening comprehension. Since listening is a mental process and is not directly observable I had used qualitative method and sought to subjective data not objective one. Two groups of boys and girls in intermediate level had...

I would like to thank Prof. Ben-Tal and Prof. Nemirovski for their guidance and quick response in every issue. Special thanks are attributed to Dr. Amir Beck for his help and constructive remarks. The listening ear and helping hand of the IE&M faculty academic staff, administrative staff and students are highly appreciated. And last but certainly not least, I am grateful for the support of my w...

This study aims to reveal the role of note-taking in improving listening skills and exposing learning resources besides TED.COM. The skill academic activities is subject incompetency standard form. research was a classroom action approach for third-semester students at Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta that focused on TED.COM’s contribution students’ skills. results initial found obstacles, fi...

IMPORTANCE A review of a test battery presented in both quiet and noise may clarify what the progression of speech perception abilities is in older adult cochlear implant users and whether the performance declines with advancing age. OBJECTIVE To examine whether older adults (≥65 years) with cochlear implants maintain stable speech perception performance after at least 10 years of listening e...

New theoretical ideas and empirical research show that very young children's learning and thinking are strikingly similar to much learning and thinking in science. Preschoolers test hypotheses against data and make causal inferences; they learn from statistics and informal experimentation, and from watching and listening to others. The mathematical framework of probabilistic models and Bayesian...

At the outset, I would like to express my deep gratitude to the distinguished membership of the Indian Psychiatric Society for giving me an opportunity to deliver Dr D L N Murthy Rao Oration. Dr Murthy Rao was one of the foremost psychiatrist in our country and as a Professor and Director of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences, Bangalore, he not only trained many eminent ...