BACKGROUND Although we always want to select the best signal-processing strategy for our hearing-aid and cochlear-implant patients, no efficient and valid procedure is available. Comparisons in the office are without listening experience, and short-term take-home trials are likely influenced by the order of strategies tried. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate a new procedure fo...

This study investigated the effectiveness of massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG)-based (massive multiplayer online role-playing game) instruction in elementary English education. The effectiveness of the MMORPG program was compared with face-toface instruction and the independent variables (gender, prior knowledge, motivation for learning, self-directed learning skills, comput...

The work reported here was part of research into the design of theMathtalk program. This allows visually disabled people to read algebra notation using synthetic speech and non-speech audio [7]. This paper describes an experiment that investigated the problems of reading algebra notation by listening. The two questions addressed in this paper are firstly, does using prosodic cues facilitate the...

The present study was conducted to examine empirically and systematically the effect of explicit instruction of comprehension strategies on EFL learners’ reading anxiety and reading comprehension in Iranian high schools. To this end, two intact classes (65 students) participated in this study as members of control and experimental groups. The experimental group underwent 10 sessions of reading ...

This paper presents new approaches to modelling both linguistic and non-linguistic feedback during instruction giving in a virtual domain. Our approach enables finegrained investigation of how language and actions are conditioned by task-level and domain-level features of dialogue. In a preliminary study, we examine the interaction between pauses in linguistic and non-linguistic activity. As fa...

While it is hypothesized that providing instruction based on individuals’ preferred learning styles improves learning (i.e., reading for visual learners and listening for auditory learners, also referred to as the meshing hypothesis), after a critical review of the literature Pashler, McDaniel, Rohrer, and Bjork (2008) concluded that this hypothesis lacks empirical evidence and subsequently des...

Employing a survey design, this study aims to examine learners’ metacognitive listening strategies, their anxiety and whether there is relationship between these two research matters in English as foreign language (EFL) classrooms. The participants included 112 freshman students at university context they were taking comprehension course during the study. Two scales used collect data for study;...