Listening to a degraded speech signal over time can interfere with language development and learning in children with both language and reading disorders. Some may benefit from modifications that improve access to speech in the classroom. The Functional Listening Evaluation (FLE; Johnson & Von Almen, 1997), developed for assessing classroom listening ability in children with hearing impairment,...

III Listening comprehension is a multifaceted L2 skill and its actual mastery has proved challenging for many EFL learners (Matthews, 2018). Pre-listening supports may help us change the dire situation in developing effective listening competence. Therefore, the current study tried to examine the effect of vocabulary preparation, grammar instruction and background knowledge activatio...

We examined whether different encounters of reading material influence the likelihood of mind wandering, memory for the material, and the ratings of interest in the material. In a within-subjects design participants experienced three different reading encounters: (1) reading a passage aloud, (2) listening to a passage being read to them, and (3) reading a passage silently. Throughout each readi...

The impact of menstrual cyclicity and sex differences on dichotic listening was studied in 25 women and 20 men (aged 20-25 years). Dichotic listening was administered using consonant-vowel (CV) stimuli and tested across three attention conditions. Women were tested at two points in the menstrual cycle (Day 2-5: low oestrogen and progesterone/Low-EP; Day 18-25: high oestrogen and progesterone/Hi...

Background and Aim: Aging is associated with reduced cognitive abilities including attention and memory. There is some evidence that shows randomized dichotic digits test (RDDT) has enough difficulty to show the ear asymmetry in dichotic listening. This study aimed to compare the effect of free and focused attention on dichotic listening ability of young and elderly listeners. Methods: The cros...

The purpose of this study was to identify Iranian EFL learner’s awareness degree of listening factors and strategies and the effect of input modification in improvement of listening comprehension. Since listening is a mental process and is not directly observable I had used qualitative method and sought to subjective data not objective one. Two groups of boys and girls in intermediate level had...

The present study explores the effect of inbound marketing factors on marketing performance. The statistical population was composed of all customers of six restaurants with Gilaki names in Rasht, which are active in cyberspace. A total of 400 individuals were selected by convenience sampling. The standard scales included visibility management, active listening, community building, wor...

Purpose: With the advent of Bluetooth technology, many of the assistive listening devices for hearing have become manufacturer specific, with little objective information about the performance provided. Method: Thirty native English-speaking adults (mean age 29.8) with normal hearing were tested pseudorandomly with two major hearing aid manufacturers’ proprietary Bluetooth connectivity devices ...

extended abstract 1. introduction there is a consensus among listening researchers that listening comprehension includes a variety of subskills; though there is not yet a general agreement on their precise nature or exact number (buck & tatsuoka, 1998). thus, it should be possible to define listening as complex skill operations which involve a number of subskills or constituent elements (goh & ...