Task-based listening tests such as IELTS require testees to listen to some information on a CD and simultaneously answer the related items. To answer such items, testees are expected to comprehend, analyze, compare and infer pieces of information while listening to the incoming audio material. The present research attempted to investigate whether the two major characteristics of question type a...

This study examined the effect of two different authentic topic-familiar rhetorical L2 listening tasks (expository and argumentative) differing in reasoning demand on the listening comprehension scores of a number of Iranian EFL advanced learners. Sixty homogeneous advanced learners were recruited based on their performance on an English Language Proficiency test (Fowler & Coe, 1976). Then they...

The usefulness of teaching pronunciation in language instruction remains controversial. Though past research suggests that teachers can make little or no difference in improving their students’ pronunciation,  current  findings  suggest  that  second  language  pronunciation  can  improve  to  be near  native-like  with  the  implementation  of  certain  criteria  such  as  the  utilization  of...

The present study examined the impact of visualization and graphic organizers as pre-listening strategies on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ cognitive, behavioral, and emotional engagement and their listening comprehension. To do so, this study was carried out in three listening classes at Islamic Azad University of Mashhad. The participants included 80 junior EFL university stude...

Twenty-nine English language activities were implemented on a touch-tablet computer. Some activities were focused on a single skill (e.g. reading or speaking), while others involved several integrated skills (e.g. listening and writing). Materials were presented in several modalities, including speech only, speech with figure, silent video, text, speech with text, and speech with text and figur...

This article reports on the experimental methodology and key findings of AHRC-funded impact engagement project Sonic Futures: Collecting, Curating Engaging with Sound at National Science Media Museum (2020–21). The undertook a series listening-based public activities – described here as staging listening to identify new ways engaging audiences sound technology objects in museums. These led crea...

In this paper we present a real-world application (the first of its kind) of machine listening in the context of a live concert in a world-famous concert hall – the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. A real-time music tracking algorithm listens to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performing Richard Strauss’ Alpensinfonie and follows the progress in the sheet music, i.e., continuously tracks the most ...

Dichotic listening (DL) procedures are commonly employed in the evaluation of auditory processing in children. Review of the various clinical tests reveals considerable diversity in both the signals employed and their mode of administration. The extent to which other non auditory-specific factors influence the test outcome is often difficult to determine. Individual differences in memory, atten...

This research aimed to develop DIVISITE (Discovery Listening Website) and facilitate students’ learning of the listening subject. The design this was educational R&D. subjects study were second-semester English Department students STKIP PGRI Trenggalek for academic year 2020/2021. procedure included needs analysis, studying education theories, developing product, validating product experts,...