Abstract The present study was carried out to investigate the effects of listening strategy instruction on students’ listening achievement and strategy use. The participants of the study were 50 English major freshman students of Dilla University. These Students were placed in experimental and control conditions for the purpose of comparing the mean difference between the two groups. The contro...

OBJECTIVES In this study, the authors assessed the potential utility of a recently developed questionnaire (Evaluation of Children's Listening and Processing Skills [ECLiPS]) for supporting the clinical assessment of children referred for auditory processing disorder (APD). DESIGN A total of 49 children (35 referred for APD assessment and 14 from mainstream schools) were assessed for auditory...

this research study investigated the development of listening proficiency level by the aid of different media- tional artifacts in systemic theoretical instruction (sti). the study considered whether exposing learners to different types and various numbers of mediating artefacts would increase their awareness towards listen- ing concepts after two months, and consequently promote their listenin...

abstractthe present study was carried out to investigate the effects of listening strategy instruction on students’ listening achievement and strategy use. the participants of the study were 50 english major freshman students of dilla university. these students were placed in experimental and control conditions for the purpose of comparing the mean difference between the two groups. the control...

Task difficulty is a critical issue affecting test developers. Controlling or balancing the item difficulty of an assessment improves its validity and discrimination. Test developers construct tests from the cognitive perspective, by making the test constructing process more scientific and efficient; thus, the scores obtained more precisely represent the proficiency level. In this paper, a fram...

As the main part of a large-scale project, the present study investigated the relationship among reflective thinking, listening anxiety, and listening comprehension of Iranian EFL learners with regard to their proficiency level. To this end, 223 (106 intermediate and 117 advanced) adult male and female Iranian EFL learners from a private language institute took part in the study by completing t...

The following explains what mappings have been chosen for a sonification of several data channels from set containing a recording of the neural activity of a person listening to a piece of music. This piece, and also the sonification, is exactly 300 seconds long. My aim is to provide a sonification/composition that can be created in (near) real-time and takes its title literally. This is done b...

This study describes a binaural machine hearing system that is capable of performing auditory stream segregation in scenarios where multiple sound sources are present. The process of stream segregation refers to the capability of human listeners to group acoustic signals into sets of distinct auditory streams, corresponding to individual sound sources. The proposed computational framework mimic...

Learning  a  foreign  language  has  been  related  with  some  kind  of  knowledge  of  language learning strategies on the one hand, and some level of (test-taking) apprehension or tension on the other although a small amount of anxiety is normally expected as a natural warning symptom.  The  current  study  aimed  at  investigating  the  relationship  between  listening strategy  use,  test ...

AbstractThis study aims to highlight the key roles played by metacognitive strategies training in the development of listening comprehension skill and self-regulation strategies of EFL learners. The participants of this study (N = 60) were female Iranian students assigned to two groups of experimental and control in Kish English Language Institute. Learners in the experimental group recei...