Improving listening comprehension skill is one of the urgent contemporary educational needs in the field of second language acquisition and metacognitive strategies are proved to help learners manage and self-regulate their listening and overcome deficiencies. Although metacognitive instruction is underscored by previous research, task-based metacognitive instruction is seriously underresearche...

This study investigated the effects of captioned texts on second/foreign (L2) listening comprehension and vocabulary gains using a computer multimedia program. Additionally, it explored the caption ordering effect (i.e. captions displayed during the first or second listening), and the interaction of captioning order with the L2 proficiency level of language learners in listening comprehension a...

For the first time in a generation, basic communication services like sending letters, making phone calls, listening to the radio or watching TV have begun to change, with a migration to email, Internet telephony, Internet radio and TV in various stages. In this white paper, we discuss some of the new services that we envision in a communication environment dominated by the Internet. We first d...

An elderly patient with a relatively severe problem in speech understanding tried out, and rejected, use of a conventional hearing aid. She has accepted, however, and successfully used an assistive listening device (ALD). Her experience highlights the importance of considering trial use of an ALD in the elderly patient who rejects use of a conventional aid.

In this paper we discuss aspects of our work in developing performance systems that are geared towards humanmachine co-performance with a particular emphasis on improvisation. We present one particular system, FILTER, which was created in the context of a larger project related to artificial intelligence and performance, and has been tested in the context of our electro-acoustic performance tri...

Sound event detection in real world environments has attracted significant research interest recently because of it’s applications in popular fields such as machine hearing and automated surveillance, as well as in sound scene understanding. This paper considers continuous robust sound event detection, which means multiple overlapped sound events in different types of interfering noise. First, ...

In learning a new language, there are four macro skills that learner must develop and use: listening, reading, speaking, writing. academic environments such as schools, these taught improved every day to suit the needs of learners. Language learners often trained when or how they should talk; however, seldom listen. This descriptive quantitative study revolved around utility it affects upon acq...

While listening plays an important role in the process of foreign/second language learning, different factors can affect this process. This study was designed to assess the relationship between listening anxiety and metacognitive strategy awareness with a special interest in the role of gender and proficiency level. In order to conduct this survey, two instruments including the Metacognitive Aw...

This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of metacognitive strategy instruction intervention on reducing language listening anxiety of Iranian EFL learners in the light of 2 listening metacognitive strategy instruction models of Integrated Experiential Learning Task (IELT) (Goh, 2010) and Metacognitive pedagogical Sequence (MPS) (Vandergrift, 2004). Participants were 63 B1 level learners who...