Based on the assumption that good decoding skills constitute a bootstrapping mechanism for reading comprehension, the present study investigated the relative contribution of the former skill to the latter compared to that of three other predictors of reading comprehension (listening comprehension, vocabulary and phonemic awareness) in 392 French-speaking first graders from low SES families. Thi...

CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) courseware was developed for advanced learners of Japanese, entitled "Listening Comprehension: Life in Japan; Dwelling in a Private Apartment." Based on the "Three-step Auditory Comprehension Approach" (Takefuta, 1997), this courseware consists of three STEPs: STEP1 helps learners grasp the outline of the content, STEP2 assists in a more detailed under...

BACKGROUND The literature suggests that a complex relationship exists between the three main skills involved in reading comprehension (decoding, listening comprehension and vocabulary) and that this relationship depends on at least three other factors orthographic transparency, children's grade level and socioeconomic status (SES). This study investigated the relative contribution of the predic...

this article reports on the findings of a study that investigated the impact of manipulating task performance conditions on listening task performance by learners of english as a foreign language (efl). the study was designed to explore the effects of changing complexity dimensions on listening task performance and to achieve two aims: to see how listening comprehension task performance was aff...

This paper investigates which features would be the best to include in a listening comprehension game for European Portuguese. The goal is to develop a method to motivate non-native speakers of Portuguese to engage themselves in activities intended to develop their listening comprehension skills. The approach adopted herein consisted in providing students with several sets of exercises, each se...

introduction: the passive sentence structure is one of the most interesting syntactic structures on language development. studies in some languages have indicated that comprehension of this syntactic structure takes place late in the language acquisition process. therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the comprehension of active and passive structures in 48-59- and 60-71-month-o...