OBJECTIVES Although age-related declines in perceiving spoken language are well established, the primary focus of research has been on perception of phonemes, words, and sentences. In contrast, relatively few investigations have been directed at establishing the effects of age on the comprehension of extended spoken passages. Moreover, most previous work has used extreme-group designs in which ...

-This study explored entry level achievement characteristics of 132 youth and adults who read below fifth grade equivalent who volunteered to participate in an adult tutorial project. Specifically, reading, self-esteem, listening comprehension, and verbal language levels were measured and an­ alyzed to substantiate observed characteristics of adult illiterates and to examine a developmental rea...

This study aimed to compare the effect of listening strategies, namely, metacognitive, cognitive and social/affective strategies, on impulsive and reflective visually impaired EFL learners’ (VILs) listening comprehension. The participants of the study were 58 male and female VILs at pre-intermediate level within the age range of 12-18 in the west of Iran, Khorram Abad. These participants were s...

this study explores the effect of online annotations via interactive white boards (iwbs) on reading comprehension of iranian efl learners. to this aim, 60 students from a language institute were selected as homogeneous based on their performance on oxford placement test (2014).then, they were randomly assigned to 3 experimental groups of 20, and subsequently exposed to the research treatment af...

Through the use of eye-tracking technology and a while-listening performance (WLP) test, this study examined differences in gaze behaviors measured listening performances on test items (across various stages test) compared them between native English-speaking (E-L1) non-native (E-L2) candidates. One hundred students from public university Singapore participated study. A series Mann-Whitney U te...

Abstract First-generation refugee children often experience pre- and post-migration adversity display high levels of mental health/wellbeing difficulties, but to date, research has not examined the impact such factors on children's L2 acquisition. Accordingly, this study influence externalizing internalizing problem behaviours (wellbeing), time in camps low socioeconomic status (SES) (adversity...

The accessibility of video technology has made it possible to utilize both the auditory and visual channels to present listening texts in the second language (L2) classroom and on L2 listening tests. However, there has been little research investigating the extent to which L2 listeners actually watch the video monitor when presented with a listening video text. The current study investigated te...

Selective attention (SA) is an important strategy for language comprehension both in L1 and L2. Much of the existing research on L2 listening reading has identified SA as a distinctive ability effective skilled listeners readers. However, extensive intensive this specific relatively sparse. Therefore, article provides in-depth review previous involving mechanism comprehension. As result, identi...