the aim of the current study was to examine the effect of metacognitive instruction on efl learners’ metacognitive awareness of listening strategies, listening comprehension, and oral language proficiency. fifty students of two upper-intermediate english courses participated in the study and were sampled as the experimental and control groups. for sixteen weeks the experimental group participat...

Dual-task studies assessed the effects of cellular-phone conversations on performance of a simulated driving task. Performance was not disrupted by listening to radio broadcasts or listening to a book on tape. Nor was it disrupted by a continuous shadowing task using a handheld phone, ruling out, in this case, dual-task interpretations associated with holding the phone, listening, or speaking, ...

Synthesizing the literature on voice, creativity, and supervisor listening, our research built tested a theoretical model linking voice opportunity with creative performance, moderated by listening. Using multisource, multiwave survey data from 347 employees 91 supervisors in large company China, we found that when were attentive listened to their subordinates, was positively related process en...

as the main part of a large-scale project, the present study investigated the relationship among reflective thinking, listening anxiety, and listening comprehension of iranian efl learners with regard to their proficiency level. to this end, 223 (106 intermediate and 117 advanced) adult male and female iranian efl learners from a private language institute took part in the study by completing t...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of the instructional methods using web-based instruction (WBI) and cooperative learning (CL) on listening and speaking skills for Mandarin learning among non-Chinese learners at MARA University of Technology in Malaysia. The students’ performance on listening skill was tested by using a standardized listening test while the performance on ...

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...

PURPOSE The authors evaluated the installation and use of sound-field systems to investigate the impact of these systems on teaching and learning in elementary school classrooms. Methods The evaluation included acoustic surveys of classrooms, questionnaire surveys of students and teachers, and experimental testing of students with and without the use of sound-field systems. In this article, th...

The hypothesis of this interaction research project is that it can be stimulating for experimental musicians to confront a system which ‘opposes’ their musical style. The ‘contrary motion’ of the title is the name of a MIDI-based realtime musical software agent which uses machine listening to establish the musical context, and thereby chooses its own responses to differentiate its position from...

This study investigated the effects of eliciting tasks on listening comprehension among Iranian pre-intermediate English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. To do the current study, 30 participants out of 40 were selected through administering an Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT). After that, the participants were divided into two equal groups; one experimental and one control group. Then, a...

Some hearing-impaired persons with hearing aids complain of listening difficulty under reverberation. No method, however, is currently available for hearing aid fitting that permits evaluation of hearing difficulty caused by reverberations. In this study, we produced speech materials with a reverberation time of 2.02 s that mimicked a reverberant environment (a classroom). Speech materials with...