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...

Introduction Considering "all the options" "Listening to everyone" and considering "all the feedback" Designing out options and feedback Learnings from democratic voting and polling systems Misleading feedback solicitation: implications for democracy and consensual strategies Implications for e-democracy and crowdsourcing Forms of cognitive protectionism in the light of trade protectionism Fram...

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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...

The increase of driver information and infotainment systems includes also interaction technologies like speech interaction that minimize visual-manual demand and put the focus to cognitive demand. The question is whether this could lead to distraction effects and decreased traffic safety. This study presents an evaluation method for cognitive demand based on different detection paradigms in a d...

This study aimed to compare the effect of teaching metacognitive listening strategies through shadowing activity on the listening comprehension of field-dependent (FD) and field-independent (FI) EFL learners. Since the researcher had access only to female participants,85 female EFL learners from a language institute in Tehran, at the pre-intermediate level of proficiency with the age range of 1...

Listening has an essential role in the language learning process. The success or failure of is influenced by how students use strategies. However, sometimes still find it difficult to choose appropriate listening Therefore, strategies are crucial for process English as a foreign context. This study aimed investigate used Language Education Program Academic course. was conducted first semester, ...