This paper presents a fully online course model for teaching speaking and listening skills students learning Arabic as foreign language at the International Peace College South Africa on NEO management platform. It also investigates students' attitudes towards course. The was developed by researcher during first semester of 2020. period coincided with Africa’s wave COVID-19, country’s strict lo...

Temel dil becerilerinin geliştirilmesi için ders kitaplarında dört temel becerisi ve bilgisine yönelik metin etkinlikler yer almaktadır. Söz konusu Türkçe Dersi Öğretim Programında alan kazanımları öğrencilere beceri olarak yansıtabilmek hazırlanmaktadır. İlgili beceriler içerisinde dinlemenin yeri oldukça önemlidir. Diğer gelişimine doğrudan katkı sağlamaktadır. Bu sebeple ilgili çalışmada 202...

In this paper we discuss aspects of our work in developing performance systems that are geared towards humanmachine co-performance with a particular emphasis on improvisation. We present one particular system, FILTER, which was created in the context of a larger project related to artificial intelligence and performance, and has been tested in the context of our electro-acoustic performance tri...

Sound event detection in real world environments has attracted significant research interest recently because of it’s applications in popular fields such as machine hearing and automated surveillance, as well as in sound scene understanding. This paper considers continuous robust sound event detection, which means multiple overlapped sound events in different types of interfering noise. First, ...

Traditional automatic music recommendation systems’ performance typically rely on the accuracy of statistical models learned from past preferences of users on music items. However, additional sources of data such as demographic attributes of listeners, their listening behaviour, and their listening contexts encode information about listeners, and their listening habits, that may be used to impr...

Activities that engage young children with the sensory properties of foods are popular with nursery schools, despite the lack of evidence for their efficacy in increasing children's consumption of healthy foods. This study provides the first empirical exploration of the effectiveness of a non-taste sensory activity program in a nursery school setting. Ninety-two children aged between 12 and 36 ...

While listening plays an important role in the process of foreign/second language learning, different factors can affect this process. This study was designed to assess the relationship between listening anxiety and metacognitive strategy awareness with a special interest in the role of gender and proficiency level. In order to conduct this survey, two instruments including the Metacognitive Aw...