AbstractThis study aims to highlight the key roles played by metacognitive strategies training in the development of listening comprehension skill and self-regulation strategies of EFL learners. The participants of this study (N = 60) were female Iranian students assigned to two groups of experimental and control in Kish English Language Institute. Learners in the experimental group recei...

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...

Research on teacher cognition concerning listening instruction has not been sufficiently touched upon. The present case study aimed to investigate Iranian EFL teachers' stated practices, their perceptions of how effective those practices are, and their actual classroom practices of two casual process-oriented listening instructional approaches namely, strategy-based instruction (SBI) and metaco...

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...

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;...