The main aim of this study is to investigate the impact note-taking strategy on EFL learners’ listening comprehension. Eighty participants were chosen participate in study. allocated both an experimental (20 female and 20 male) control group male). researcher used a comprehension test. results revealed that there noticeable statistical difference (p<.05) between means groups post-test. This ...

the factor structure of the listening section of a persian language proficiency test (plpt), developed and used for academic purposes, was examined in this study. a structural equation modeling (sem) was employed using amos (v. 18) to analyze the responses of a number of persian language learners (n=120) who participated in the first piloting phase of the test in 2014. to examine whether the li...

A sound's duration provides important information about the event producing it. Although many of the sounds we hear every day are 'percussive' in nature (ie resulting from two objects impacting) and therefore exhibit decaying/damped amplitude envelopes, perceptual experiments frequently use tones synthesized with 'flat' or abruptly ending envelopes. Such sounds afford an estimation strategy inv...