Captioning is widely used by second language learners as an assistive tool for listening. However, the use of captions often leads to word-by-word decoding and over-reliance on reading skill rather than improving listening skill. With the purpose of encouraging the learners to listen to the audio instead of merely reading the text, the study introduces a novel technique of captioning, partial a...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of cultural knowledge on improving Iranian EFL learners' listening comprehension. To achieve this purpose, out of three hundred participants, one hundred and twenty pre-intermediate language learners were selected based on their scores on a listening comprehension test and were randomly assigned to four groups. Each group was exposed to...

listening skill and speaking skill, according language didactics, have close interaction in lingual communications. therefore, measuring listening comprehension without considering other language skills seems to be difficult. the present study is an effort to compare the effectiveness of oral and written multiple-choice listening tests for persian language learners. in fact, this study answers ...

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...

The main concern of the present study was to compare Iranian monolingual and bilingual EFL students’ listening comprehension in terms of Latinized Persian subtitling of English movie to see whether there was a significant difference between monolinguals and bilinguals on immediate linguistic comprehension of the movie. Latinized Persian subtitling was representing Persian language in Latin scri...

During speaking and listening syntactic processing is a crucial step. It involves specifying syntactic relations between words in a sentence. If the production and comprehension modality share the neuronal substrate for syntactic processing then processing syntax in one modality should lead to adaptation effects in the other modality. In the present functional magnetic resonance imaging experim...