This article is a preliminary overview contrasting Chinese (CN) and Swedish (SE) stops. It begins with a general description of the stop systems of these two languages. The contrastive findings suggest that teachers of Chinese as Foreign Language should pay more attention to training VOT perception instead of the usual intense listening exercises of the tones. Finally, future research on contra...

Foreign Language learning is a complex process that requires considerable effort from both teachers and learners, particularly in developing effective listening skills foreign language classrooms. Among the various approaches, Extensive Listening (EL) has emerged as promising pedagogical method for enhancing acquisition. This research investigates utilization of approach teaching Arabic skills,...

Different people have different perceptual patterns in response to language. Different language accents may influence visual cognition by increasing cognitive load when different objects are referenced in stories. The purpose of this study was to record differences in eye movement patterns while subjects listened to stories in two different accents, which served as the accent-induced stimulus l...

Abstract Armed with technological development, the present study aimed at gauging the effectiveness of exposure to news and movies as two types of audiovisual programs in improving language learners’ listening comprehension at the intermediate level. To this end, a listening comprehension test was administered to 108 language learners and finally 60 language learners were selected as intermedia...

Slobin’s thinking-for-speaking (TFS) hypothesis suggests that speakers are habitually attuned to aspects of an event that are readily codable in the language while they are formulating speech. This TFS process varies considerably cross-linguistically and can be observed in all forms of production and reception including listening for understanding or mental imagery. This study explored whether ...

Listening is referred to by many scholars as the most important as well as the most complicated skill in the language, which can cause mental fatigue in the learners. This study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between L2 listening comprehension and listening fatigue among Iranian EFL learners. For this purpose, 86 intermediate and upper-intermediate Iranian EFL learners randomly ...