Multi-talker conversations challenge the perceptual and cognitive capabilities of older adults and those listening in their second language (L2). In older adults these difficulties could reflect declines in the auditory, cognitive, or linguistic processes supporting speech comprehension. The tendency of L2 listeners to invoke some of the semantic and syntactic processes from their first languag...

Title of Document: VALIDATING A THEORY-BASED MODEL OF L2 READING COMPREHENSION: RELATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS OF CONTENT-SPECIFIC SCHEMATIC KNOWLEDGE AND L2 VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE TO COMPREHENDING A SCIENCE TEXT Eunjou Oh, Ph.D., 2010 Directed By: Professor Peter Afflerbach, Department of Curriculum and Instruction Professor Robert Mislevy, Department of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation The study...

listening comprehension means the process of understanding speech in a second or foreign language. it is the perception of information and stimuli received through the ears. iranian efl learners have serious difficulties in english listening comprehension because iranian universities pay more attention to grammar and reading. the researchers used a set of authentic materials to improve iranian ...

abstractlistening plays a significant role in daily communication and educational processes. in spite of its importance, listening has long been the neglected skill in second and foreign language acquisition, research, teaching, and assessment. however, on account of the entire challenges efl learners encounter in classrooms due to the listening complexity, some pre-listening activities as supp...

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a rich repertoire meaningful, relevant comments posted on social media sites can facilitate or increase L2 listeners’ comprehension videos. utilized quasi-experimental design with an experimental group ( n = 29) that watched two YouTube videos and read comments, as well control 31) the same without comments. After watching each video, students i...

    Morphological Awareness (henceforth: MA), defined as the ability to understand the morphemic structure of the words, has been reported to affect various aspects of second language performance including reading comprehension ability, spelling performance, etc. Yet, the concept has been far less treated with reference to l2 listening transcription. Thus, against this background, this study ai...

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 ...

The aim of the current study was to investigate whether Podcasts would have an effect on Iranian autonomous and non-autonomous EFL learners’ listening comprehension ability at pre-intermediate level. For this purpose, 60 Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners at some Iranian institutes participated in the experiment of the study. Then they were divided into two groups based on an OPT and a...