YOUTUBE: A TEACHING MEDIA TO OPTIMIZE STUDENTS’ ENGLISH LISTENING COMPREHENSION SKILL

The Effect of Listening to English Songs on Iranian EFL Pre-intermediate Learners’ Listening Comprehension

The aim of this study was to find out whether listening to English songs can improve pre-intermediate EFL learners’ listening comprehension. To this end, a non-randomized pretest-posttest control group design as one of the quasi-experimental research designs was employed. The sample of the study consisted of 40 male and female English learners from two classes in an Institute in Marand, Iran. T...

Impact of Using YouTube Videos on Iranian Intermediate Male and Female EFL Learners' Listening Skill Development

This study aimed at investigating the effect of instructional YouTube videos on Iranian male and female EFL learners' listening comprehension. It was conducted with 60 male and female intermediate male and female EFL learners. The Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) was used to measure the participants’ language proficiency to make sure about homogeneity of the participants. The participants wer...

Culture Disintegration and Syllabus Mutilation to affect Iranian EFL learners' Attitude and Listening Comprehension Skill

Effects of Noise on English Listening Comprehension among Chinese College Students with Different Learning Styles

This study was intended to determine whether the effects of noise on English listening comprehension would vary among Chinese college students with different learning styles. A total of 89 participants with different learning styles measured using Kolb's (1985) Learning Style Inventory finished English listening comprehension tests in quiet and in white noise, Chinese two-talker babble, and Eng...

Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies to Iranian EFL Pre-University Students

The present study investigated the potential of implementing reading strategy instruction in raising learner readers' awareness of reading strategies,  extending the range of strategies they employed and enhancing their reading comprehension ability. To conduct the study, 90 female pre-university students majoring in Natural Sciences were selected based on a convenient sampling procedure. After...