Acquiring good listening and speaking skills in English are the main concern of many second and foreign language learners, and today's English teacher needs to be well versed in current approaches to the teaching of the aural/oral skills. In this paper, current trends in the teaching of listening and speaking will be examined and some of the most important terminology that is used in contempora...

Abstract Listening plays a significant role in daily communication and educational processes. In spite of its importance, listening has long been the neglected skill in second and foreign language acquisition, research, teaching, and assessment. However, on account of the entire challenges EFL learners encounter in classrooms due to the listening complexity, some pre-listening activities as sup...

Abstract Listening plays a significant role in daily communication and educational processes. In spite of its importance, listening has long been the neglected skill in second and foreign language acquisition, research, teaching, and assessment. However, on account of the entire challenges EFL learners encounter in classrooms due to the listening complexity, some pre-listening activities as sup...

Research background: The development of listening comprehension in a foreign language is complex process, interrelated with the progress other skills, and could be affected by numerous variables, including age. This study responds to middle-aged adults’ complaints about their difficulties English as Foreign Language (EFL) examining relationship between success EFL age.Gap knowledge Purpose stud...

If listening in adverse conditions is hard, then listening in a foreign language is doubly so: non-native listeners have to cope with both imperfect signals and imperfect knowledge. Comparison of native and non-native listener performance in speech-in-noise tasks helps to clarify the role of prior linguistic experience in speech perception, and, more directly, contributes to an understanding of...

This paper reports on a study that took positive psychology approach to foreign language anxiety reduction. More specifically, it investigated whether reminiscing about achievements could effectively diminish the learners’ classroom anxiety. It also explored patterns nested in process. To this end, 88 first Chinese university students of English were randomly assigned into experimental (n = 43)...

Research in second or foreign language learning indicates that for adult learners, the improvement of one language skill facilitates the development of other skills. The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlations among Chinese EFL students’ reading, writing, and listening development by examining their test scores on the College English Test Band 4. The findings showed that the r...