The study described here investigates the perceived emotional content of " affect bursts " for German. Affect bursts are defined as short emotional non-speech expressions. This study shows that affect bursts, presented without context, can convey a clearly identifiable emotional meaning. The influence of the segmental structure on emotion recognition, as opposed to prosody and voice quality, is...

This research aimed to probe the effect of two different models of metacognitive strategy instruction on the listening performance of EFL learners in Iran. 83 intermediate EFL learners in four groups, two male and two female groups were the participants. The participants in the first experimental groups – a male and a female group – were undergone a ten-week treatment including the linear strat...

As listening comprehension plays an indispensable role in language learning, the way in which language instructors cover teaching listening comprehension has been controversial; the recent study selected two approaches to associate listening comprehension tactics: product-oriented and process-oriented. A quasi-experimental design was adopted to get to the objectives. Using a random procedure, 1...

The purpose of this research is to find out law students’ level of competence with reference to listening skills in Pakistani academic settings. For this, four areas of listening were taken into account: a) listening to lectures, b) listening to classroom presentations, c) listening in group/pair work, and d) listening to judges in mock oral arguments. After a review of literature in the field ...

Speech synthesizers are optimized for fluent natural text. However, in a speech to speech translation system, they have to process machine translation output, which is often not fluent. Rendering machine translations as speech makes them even harder to understand than the synthesis of natural text. A speech synthesizer must deal with the disfluencies in translations in order to be comprehensibl...