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...

This study was carried out with 2 students with mild mental deficiency, one in 5 th grade and the other in 6 th grade of Turgut Özal Secondary School in Bulanık County of Muş Province. It was done during the spring semester of the 2014-2015 school year in order to observe the effect of multimedia-assisted instruction on listening skills of mainstreamed students with mild mental deficiency. The ...

the present research examines the academic listening comprehension strategies (lcs) among a total number of 59 intermediate and upper-intermediate persian learners who were taking pre-university courses in 2011 in persian language centre in imam khomeini international university, qazvin. the study examined nature of lcs, the variety of applying lcs, and finally predictability of strategies as a...

Literature is a creative and imaginative work; it records human lives or experiences using language as its medium. Literary works medium rather than goal an end in the instruction will be revealed. There are four skills to developed process of instruction. These are: listening, speaking, reading well writing. This paper elaborate aspects: (a) some reasons strategies for educator utilize literar...

The present study investigated the potential of implementing reading strategy instruction in raising learner readers' awareness of reading strategies,  extending the range of strategies they employed and enhancing their reading comprehension ability. To conduct the study, 90 female pre-university students majoring in Natural Sciences were selected based on a convenient sampling procedure. After...

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been considered as an effective language teaching methodology. However, its applicability for lower-proficiency learners in EFL contexts has not been adequately justified. Moreover, the possible mediating effect of the experiential learning styles on academic listening TBLT has not been targeted in the literature, a gap that this study attempts to fill. T...

This study explores the effect of explicit pronunciation instruction on enlarging listening vocabulary size. 115 learners English as a foreign language were recruited and received ten-week segments four skills (reduction, elision, intrusion assimilation). How was carried out described in details pre-test post-test form Listening Vocabulary Levels Test. It found that after instruction, learners’...

Since the 1970s, one strand of second language (L2) pedagogy has been concerned with imparting behaviors and techniques to learners that they can use independently to improve their learning and use of the target language. This strand, known as strategy instruction (SI), has faced a number of challenges including overdependence on teachers for instruction, competition for space in already crowde...