Research in second or foreign language learning indicates that for adult learners, the improvement of one language skill facilitates the development of other skills. The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlations among Chinese EFL students’ reading, writing, and listening development by examining their test scores on the College English Test Band 4. The findings showed that the r...

To test ideas about the universality and time course of vocal emotion processing, 50 English listeners performed an emotional priming task to determine whether they implicitly recognize emotional meanings of prosody when exposed to a foreign language. Arabic pseudoutterances produced in a happy, sad, or neutral prosody acted as primes for a happy, sad, or ‘false’ (i.e., non-emotional) face targ...

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...

In the acquisition of foreign languages, it is a challenge to achieve a near­native level, particularly in academic contexts. This is certainly important in the case of future foreign language teachers, because they are responsible to transfer their knowledge. In this sense, a continuous formation is needed in order to acquire an academic level. However, most of these students finished their un...

Foreign language learners typically experience considerable anxiety about taking listening tests. This study investigated how four forms of listening support (pre-teaching of content and vocabulary, question preview, and repeated input) affect the anxiety levels of college students in Taiwan taking a multiple-choice achievement test, which counts for their final grade in a required listening co...

listening skill and speaking skill, according language didactics, have close interaction in lingual communications. therefore, measuring listening comprehension without considering other language skills seems to be difficult. the present study is an effort to compare the effectiveness of oral and written multiple-choice listening tests for persian language learners. in fact, this study answers ...