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...

This article presents a focused review of language, speech, and comprehension outcomes in children with cochlear implants. Language acquisition with early-age implants and later-age implants are discussed, along with literacy and comprehension skills. A wide range of language outcomes is possible for children with cochlear implants, but many can achieve listening and spoken language skills at t...

Many studies have so far tried to examine the relationship between listening strategies and comprehension. However, it seems that none of them focused on effect test method findings. The present study has investigated issue by having 55 English language learners respond pictorial non-pictorial items with different response formats. section Preliminary Test (PET) a 36-item questionnaire were adm...

Previous studies have demonstrated the negative impact of adverse signal-to-noise-ratios on non-native English-speaking listeners' performance on speech recognition using recall tasks, as well as implied that comprehension skills were more impaired than recognition skills under reverberation and noise. The authors have themselves previously conducted a pilot study on three native and three non-...