Using data collected from the first wave of a longitudinal data set collected in the late fall and winter of 1990-1991, the National Survey of Self-Care and Aging (NSSCA), we examined the extent and type of assistance older people provided to others. Age, gender, and perceived health status were the most consistent predictors of the four types of assistance: personal care, child care, volunteer...

This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of metacognitive strategy instruction intervention on reducing language listening anxiety of Iranian EFL learners in the light of 2 listening metacognitive strategy instruction models of Integrated Experiential Learning Task (IELT) (Goh, 2010) and Metacognitive pedagogical Sequence (MPS) (Vandergrift, 2004). Participants were 63 B1 level learners who...

Testing the comprehension of spoken language is of primary importance. A lot of factors may affect the performance of EFL learners on listening comprehension tests, among which are the use of visual advance organizers, and types of listening passages (dialogues or monologues). As B-Ikeguchi (1997) states a few studies have been carried out on the effects of these factors on EFL learners’ listen...

One of the English skills that students have to be comprehended is listening. Listening plays an important role in learning English. This article describes on answers about investigating into students’ perceptions regarding listening comprehension at Senior High School Muhammadiyah Luwuk. It used descriptive qualitative and interview collecting data. The major problems emphasized by were dealin...

Objectives: The aim of this review was to provide an overview of the use of listening to the Holy Qur’an recitation (HQR) therapy in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Methods: Articles in the last 10 years were reviewed to obtain data about the application of listening to the HQR and its effect on physiological parameters and neuropsychological functions. Results: Twenty-four articles were ...

The Impact of Language Learning Activities on the Spoken Language Development of 5-6-Year-Old Children in Private Preschool Centers of Langroud N. Bagheri, M.A. E. Abbasi, Ph.D. M. GeramiPour, Ph.D. The present study was conducted to investigate the impact of language learning activities on development of spoken language in 5-6-year-old children at private preschool center...

The present study aimed to examine any possible relevance of perfectionism as a personal trait variable, in moderating the effectiveness of meta-cognitive instruction on bottom-up and top-down sub-processes of listening comprehension with a sample of EFL learners in Iranian context. To this end, 94 female EFL learners were selected from among 136 EFL learners at Andisheh Language Institute in M...

The aim of the current study was to examine the effect of metacognitive instruction on EFL learners’ metacognitive awareness of listening strategies, listening comprehension, and oral language proficiency. Fifty students of two upper-intermediate English courses participated in the study and were sampled as the experimental and control groups. For sixteen weeks the experimental group participat...