This paper calls into question the impact of Emergency Remote Teaching on Development Listening Skills during English classes in Secondary Schools Ukraine. Attention is paid to analysis key notions and concepts listening skills development secondary schools. Thirty teachers at schools took part research. investigates resources that were used by develop pupils classes. discusses linguistic, psyc...

Through the design of soundscape installations for three historical museum buildings, we explore how sonic placemaking may be used to reveal intangible cultural heritage. We build on Harrison and Dourish’s distinction between space place, Jordan Lacey’s definition understand sound-scape as a process creating places that support sensory connection be-tween guest space, hereby enabling new experi...

Methods: This author conducted one-on-one semi-structured interviews with six faculty members in mathematics and earth sciences at a private university in Tokyo to examine (1) the use of L1 and L2 as well as language use activities involving reading, listening, speaking, and writing in English in content courses they were teaching or had taught previously and (2) their perceptions of four-skill...

Audio technology such as podcasting may be an efficient tool to improve oral proficiency by exposing learners to more authentic input (e.g., listening to podcasts) and by giving them opportunities to produce substantially more output (e.g., creating podcasts). Combined with self-evaluation activities, voice recording technology can also contribute to metacognitive awareness, i.e., “the ability ...

After a short survey of the goals of the current standardization activities within MPEG-4 Audio, an introduction to the concept of the verification model (VM) based codec development is given and the current status of the VM development is described. The results of listening tests and core experiments are addressed briefly in order to allow a comparison of the expected codec efficiency with tha...