Listening comprehension is at the heart of language learning (Kurita, 2012). It is an importantlanguage skill to develop in terms of second language acquisition (SLA) (Dunkel, 1991; Rost,2001; Vandergrift, 2007).In spite of its importance, L2 learners often regard listening as themost difficult language skill to learn. In this study, shadowing as an act or task in listening, inwhich the learner...

Reading comprehension is one of the core learning abilities that plenty learners struggle with. Being an active process reading and extracting meaning from text, this cognitive skill requires effective use strategic processes. To help perform better in comprehension, action research, which aims to identify effects metacognitive strategies on level thirty-three Grade-7 L2 learners, was conducted...

one important issue that any material or test designer should bear in mind is to be careful about developing teaching and testing reading materials which would not be to the benefit of a group of readers or examinees and to the detriment of some others. one of the factors which may cause difference between the performances of english learners or test takers is the selection of reading tests wit...

Using the self-paced reading paradigm, the present study examines whether highly proficient second language (L2) speakers of German (English first language) use case-marking information during the on-line comprehension of unambiguous wh-extractions, even when task demands do not draw explicit attention to this morphosyntactic feature in German. Results support previous findings, in that both th...

The current study was designed to identify the relative significance of syntactic and lexical knowledge in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) reading comprehension 254 adult Turkish university students. role two dimensions knowledge, depth breadth L2 were also examined study. A Syntactic Knowledge Test (SKT), Reading Comprehension (RCT) composed TOEFL, Vocabulary Levels (VLT) Word Associates (...