As listening comprehension plays an indispensable role in language learning, the way in which language instructors cover teaching listening comprehension has been controversial; the recent study selected two approaches to associate listening comprehension tactics: product-oriented and process-oriented. A quasi-experimental design was adopted to get to the objectives. Using a random procedure, 1...

Testing the comprehension of spoken language is of primary importance. A lot of factors may affect the performance of EFL learners on listening comprehension tests, among which are the use of visual advance organizers, and types of listening passages (dialogues or monologues). As B-Ikeguchi (1997) states a few studies have been carried out on the effects of these factors on EFL learners’ listen...

language textbooks are conventionally expected to develop the four language macro-skills, including listening, reading, writing and speaking in language learners. however, mastering the reading skill is of particular importance, since it enhances the comprehension of specialized texts in students. the objective of this research is to investigate the scientific aspect of persian textbooks in tea...

Listening skill plays an important role in studying a foreign language, especially English. However, students face lot of difficulties English listening. This study aims to find out the status and listening comprehension 149 non-English majored freshmen majoring Pharmacy, Accounting, Business Administration, Food Technology, Information Technology at Tay Do University. A achievement test was of...

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...

Computers have been used for language teaching ever since the 1960's.Learning a second language is a challenging endeavor, and, for decades now, proponents of computer assisted language learning (CALL) have declared that help is on the horison. We investigate the suitability of deploying speech technology in computer based systems that can be used to teach foreign language skills. In this case,...

the present research investigated the effect of self-regulatory approach (with two components of self-checking and self-efficacy) on pre-intermediate iranian learners' lexical segmentation in listening comprehension via authentic listening comprehension texts. to achieve this purpose, the investigators administered an oxford placement test (2007) to ninety-eight students of two girls’ priv...

Speech rate has been identified as a major factor affecting listening comprehension Despite the common-sense belief that slower rates facilitate listening comprehension, empirical studies have yielded contradictory findings A review of previous studies of speech rate and listening comprehension revealed methodological problems Using a novel approach and recent developments in computer technolog...

Listening comprehension involves the ability to understand and extract meaning from spoken sentences, stories, instruction. This skill is vital for young children has long-term effects on school achievement, employability, income, participation in society. There a lack of measures children’s listening skills. We report new measure (LURI) that we tested group at-risk preschoolers. Using IRT (Ite...

This introduction to the special issue entitled “Mechanisms of Variation in Reading Comprehension: Processes and Products” defines what is referred as process product reading comprehension. A specific model offered, five articles are discussed referencing it. Key questions are: a) How study products comprehension?; b) comprehension related?; c) Is (modulo decoding) same listening d) Are process...