We will demonstrate Interactive Books that children English can use independently to learn to read English texts accurately, fluently and expressively. The books feature Marni, a bilingual virtual reading teacher. Marni first familiarizes children with text by narrating it in the child’s first language, (currently, either Chinese or Spanish), followed by narration and read along activities in E...

Pre-service teachers are mostly trained with traditional methods in their institutions and as a result, they do not become competent technology integration education. To successfully integrate education, it is necessary for to have knowledge of the content pedagogical techniques teach this (TPACK). The purpose study was contribute pre-service primary school teachers’ TPACK. For purpose, selecte...

-It is assumed that learners may feel anxious while listening in the target language due to many factors such as the authenticity of the listening text, incomprehensibility of the listening material and environmental factors. In this respect, developing effective listening strategies may help to overcome many problems related to target language listening. It is then of interest for reserachers ...

L2 listening can involve the phantom activation of words which are not actually in the input. All spoken-word recognition involves multiple concurrent activation of word candidates, with selection of the correct words achieved by a process of competition between them. L2 listening involves more such activation than L1 listening, and we report two studies illustrating this. First, in a lexical d...

This study was designed to examine factors associated with literal interpretations of homonyms. Participants were 212 second graders, ages 7;0-8;11, who listened to a story containing 16 key words. The key words were homonymous words ('pseudo-homonyms'), nonsense words, or familiar words used accurately. While listening to the story, children selected an illustration of each key word. Later, th...

In the present study we used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to investigate the influence of phonological and lexical properties of verbal items on the excitability of the tongue’s cortical motor representation during passive listening. In particular, we aimed to clarify if the difference in tongue motor excitability found during listening to words and pseudo-words (Fadiga et al. 2002) ...


 Focus:
 To take time to identify and recognize the sounds in spaces around us.
 Learning objectives:
 With this activity, we will draw attention our surrounding environment through listening. This can function as a stand-alone activity. However, you also use it starting point before transferring experience deep- sea environments activity called “Cold Seeps Symphony”.
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Abstract Armed with technological development, the present study aimed at gauging the effectiveness of exposure to news and movies as two types of audiovisual programs in improving language learners’ listening comprehension at the intermediate level. To this end, a listening comprehension test was administered to 108 language learners and finally 60 language learners were selected as intermedia...