Infants acquire language with remarkable speed, although little is known about the mechanisms that underlie the acquisition process. Studies of the phonetic units of language have shown that early in life, infants are capable of discerning differences among the phonetic units of all languages, including native- and foreign-language sounds. Between 6 and 12 mo of age, the ability to discriminate...

Although the importance of listening metacognitive awareness in foreign language has been widely accepted, so far, there little research on its relationship with enjoyment (FLE) and performance. Since is an important input skill primary stage learning, this study examines relationships among awareness, FLE performance 331 Chinese senior high school students through Metacognitive Awareness Liste...

Many studies in language learning have indicated that listening comprehension plays an important role in the learning process. In spite of its importance, listening has been ignored in second language learning, research, and teaching. The purpose of the present article is to define the terms listening and listening comprehension, review the components of listening, explain teachers’ role ...

TAKASHI OTAKE Dokkyo University, Soka, Japan Japanese listeners detect speech sound targets which correspond precisely to a mora (a phonological unit which is the unit of rhythm in Japanese) more easily than targets which do not. English listeners detect medial vowel targets more slowly than consonants. Six phoneme detection experiments investigated these effects in both subject populations, pr...