Audio technology such as podcasting may be an efficient tool to improve oral proficiency by exposing learners to more authentic input (e.g., listening to podcasts) and by giving them opportunities to produce substantially more output (e.g., creating podcasts). Combined with self-evaluation activities, voice recording technology can also contribute to metacognitive awareness, i.e., “the ability ...

This paper describes a comparative study into the use of audio versus text as a form of feedback on student assignments. Many educational institutions currently use typewritten feedback, but developments in technology now make the provision of feedback in audio form a feasible proposition. The expansion of Higher Education has meant that creating conventional typewritten feedback can be very ti...

Audio-driven one-shot talking face generation methods are usually trained on video resources of various persons. However, their created videos often suffer unnatural mouth shapes and asynchronous lips because those struggle to learn a consistent speech style from different speakers. We observe that it would be much easier specific speaker, which leads authentic movements. Hence, we propose nove...

Our work is dealing with alternative interaction modes for visually impaired and blind people to use computers. The aim of the proposed approach is to exploit the human hearing capabilities to a better degree than this is done by customary screen-readers. A surrounding, three-dimensional audio interface is potentially increasing the information flow between a computer and the user. This paper p...

Preparing future professionals for highly dynamic settings require self-directed learning in authentic situations. Authentic situations imply teamwork. Therefore, designing education requires an understanding of how develops teams. We followed (bio-)medical sciences students (n = 15) during 8-month period which they worked on innovation project teams 4–6 students. Template analysis 39 transcrip...

purpose: this study aimed to identify and introduce the most important evaluation and production criteria of audio books based on users’ point of view.method: in terms of methodology, this study was among the quantitative studies and done with descriptive survey. the research instrument was researcher-made questionnaire. population was all users of audiolib website that used from audio books mo...

The article deals with the expediency of using authentic materials in foreign language classes to develop students' communicative competence. concepts "authenticity" and "authentic materials" are analyzed. It is determined that come from country whose being studied primarily intended for native speakers, therefore they distinguished by originality lexical composition, grammatical forms structur...

In some approaches to dialogic pedagogy research, authentic questions have long attracted attention, since the prevalence of has been used as an indicator quality classroom activities. However, this article offers analysis concept in research literature and shows that is less clear than commonly assumed. For instance, descriptions definitions offered are very heterogeneous even within particula...