the present research examines the academic listening comprehension strategies (lcs) among a total number of 59 intermediate and upper-intermediate persian learners who were taking pre-university courses in 2011 in persian language centre in imam khomeini international university, qazvin. the study examined nature of lcs, the variety of applying lcs, and finally predictability of strategies as a...

The two experiments reported here investigated the ability of sighted children and children with visual impairment to comprehend text and, in particular, to draw inferences both while reading and while listening. Children were assigned into 'comprehension skill' groups, depending on the degree to which their reading comprehension skill was in line with that predicted by their decoding skill. Th...

This study investigated the effects of four subtitle modes on listening comprehension TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talks and academic vocabulary learning intermediate (non-English major) advanced (English English as foreign language (EFL) learners. A total 272 Chinese college sophomore students were randomly assigned to one experimental groups: Dual subtitles, no subtitles. The parti...

Dynamic Assessment is an approach to assessment within Applied Linguistics which is stemmed from Vygotsky’s Socio-Cultural Theory of mind, his concept of Zone of Proximal Development and Feuerstein's theory of Structural Cognitive Modifiability. This study is an attempt to pinpoint the sources of mental processing problems in listening comprehension and applies dynamic interventions to remove t...

A learner’s language data of speaking, writing, listening, and reading have been compiled for a learner corpus in this study. The language data consist of linguistic output and language processing. Linguistic output refers to data of pronunciation, sentences, listening comprehension rate, and reading comprehension rate. Language processing refers to processing time and learners’ self-judgment o...

The comprehension of natural and synthetic speech in Swedish and American English was investigated using a sentence-by-sentence listening paradigm. The synthesized speech was generated by the KTH text-to-speech systems. Results indicated that sentence listening times were signzficantly longer only for American English synthetic speech as compared to natural speech. Text dijjjculty was found to ...

This article focuses on the two key areas of developing students' listening skills and proposes some accepted beliefs to challenge regarding way we prepare students listen types tasks given encourage teachers, adopt an approach deal with authentic texts.

This study investigated the hypothesis that the contributions of oral language comprehension (C) and word recognition (D) to reading comprehension (R) in the simple view of reading (SVR) are not independent because a component of C (vocabulary knowledge) directly contributes to the variance in D. Three analysis procedures (hierarchical regression analysis, exploratory factor analysis, and struc...