This experiment investigated the effects of strategy self-verbalization on children's self-efficacy and listening comprehension. Children with language deficiencies in grades two through four received instruction in listening comprehension. One-half of the children in each grade verbalized explicit strategies prior to applying them to questions. Strategy self-verbalization led to higher self-ef...

This paper presents a study on the metacognitive strategies employed by English listeners in an EFL setting. The results of the study reveal that the subjects used directed attention most frequently and they used monitoring least frequently. Besides, there are differences in the use of metacognitive strategies between successful and unsuccessful listeners. The differences exist in the use of di...

Investigating the Learning Style Variation and Strategy Selection of Iranian Learners in Listening Skill

Analogue to occupational noise-induced hearing loss, MP3-induced hearing loss may be evolving into a significant social and public health problem. To inform prevention strategies and interventions, this study investigated correlates of adolescents' risky MP3-player listening behavior primarily informed by protection motivation theory. We invited 1687 adolescents (12- to 19-year old) of Dutch se...

introduction: nowadays the use of music therapy for neurological disorders in developed countries is widely emphasized. despite this, there is little scientific evidence regarding the use of this method for the treatment of iranian patients with stroke. case report: since iranian patients are more familiar with persian music,this study was performed to describe the effects of listening to the p...

The good old days for businesses where they were only concerned with conceiving and communicating a message to its target audience are long gone. conversations since then have turned into two ways between the business customer, vice versa. While gearing up this new reality, conversation reality has emerged happening among customers about brands, but without them. Businesses losing control of na...