This research study investigated the development of listening proficiency level by the aid of different media- tional artifacts in Systemic Theoretical Instruction (STI). The study considered whether exposing learners to different types and various numbers of mediating artefacts would increase their awareness towards listen- ing concepts after two months, and consequently promote their listenin...

Speaking as an initial goal in language teaching and learning has relationships with many variables including listening, reading, writing, knowledge of vocabulary as well as grammar. The present study mainly aims at examining the relationship between translations and speaking fluency. For this purpose and following an experimental design, three groups of Iranian advanced EFL learners were...

This study aims to analyze research articles on the topic of metacognitive listening strategies published in 2016-2019. The type used is descriptive content analysis. sample this 7 from national and international journals field learning teaching English as a foreign language (English Foreign Language). article was analyzed terms methods, target population, selection number samples, data collect...

In teaching and learning of English as a foreign language, the Internet serves as a source of authentic listening material, enabling learners to practice English in real contexts. An adaptive computer-assisted language learning and teaching system can pick up news clips as authentic materials from the Internet according to learner listening proficiency if it is equipped with a listenability mea...

Elektronik dinletiler dil öğretiminde/öğreniminde taşınabilir ve esnek öğretim materyalleri sunması açısından yenilikçi bir teknoloji olarak kabul edilmektedir. Çalışmada e-dinletilerin yabancı Türkçe öğrenenlerin dinlediğini anlama başarısı dinleme kaygısına etkisi incelenmektedir. Araştırmanın çalışma grubunu Afganistan’da öğrenen B2 düzeyindeki 61 öğrenci oluşturmaktadır. nicel araştırma yön...

This study examines the links between L2 linguistic knowledge, L2 listening strategy use, self-determined motivation, and L2 listening anxiety relative to L2 listening proficiency. Prior theoretical and empirical work suggests that these variables are interrelated in complex ways, and this hypothesis is tested here using structural equation modeling with a sample of 300 high school foreign lang...

Duolingo is a commercial language-teaching platform that offers free courses on the web and mobile apps. This study reports ACTFL listening reading proficiency levels of adult learners who had completed beginning-level in Spanish or French. The participants (n = 225) were residing United States, little to no prior target language, used as their only learning tool. reached Intermediate Low Novic...

this article clarifies the importance of listening and speaking in language development. both represent two of the most difficult components of english language fores/ (eglish as a second language) learners to acquire listening comprehension is central to second lani,r,uge aquisition. it also appears to be crucially important for advanced level learners. the main aspect of speaking is communica...

The present study aimed to capture and represent the mediator-learner’s interaction in the development of listening proficiency and statistically compare this interaction between high and low proficient English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. Thirty EFL learners participated in Oxford Quick Placemat Test (OQPT) and the Interactions/Mosaic Listening Placement (IMLP) Test to select those wh...