the purpose of the present study was to determine gender differences in the language development and skills of first grade students of primary schools in marivan-iran. to do this, 260 first grade students (140 males and 120 females) were chosen by multi stage cluster sampling and stratified random sampling methods among the first grade students in elementary schools in the 2011-2012 academic ye...

Background and Aim: Aging is associated with reduced cognitive abilities including attention and memory. There is some evidence that shows randomized dichotic digits test (RDDT) has enough difficulty to show the ear asymmetry in dichotic listening. This study aimed to compare the effect of free and focused attention on dichotic listening ability of young and elderly listeners. Methods: The cros...

abstractthe present study was carried out to investigate the effects of listening strategy instruction on students’ listening achievement and strategy use. the participants of the study were 50 english major freshman students of dilla university. these students were placed in experimental and control conditions for the purpose of comparing the mean difference between the two groups. the control...

This study was carried out to investigate the relationship between foreign language listening anxiety and listening comprehension. The study employed correlational study design. Participants of the study were 40 grade 11 students who attended the listening class in 2015/2016. Foreign language listening anxiety questionnaire and listening comprehension tests were used as data gathering instrumen...

This study was carried out to investigate the relationship between foreign language listening anxiety and listening comprehension. The study employed correlational study design. Participants of the study were 40 grade 11 students who attended the listening class in 2015/2016. Foreign language listening anxiety questionnaire and listening comprehension tests were used as data gathering instrumen...

Inspired by the DANTALE II listening test paradigm, which is used for determining the intelligibility of noisy speech, we assess the hypothesis that humans maximize the probability of correct decision when recognizing words contaminated by additive Gaussian, speech-shaped noise. We first propose a statistical Gaussian communication and classification scenario, where word models are built from s...

A polyglot speech synthesizer, synthesizes speech for any given monolingual or multilingual text, in a single speaker’s voice. In this regard, a polyglot speech corpus is required. It is difficult to find a speaker proficient in multiple languages. Therefore, in the current work, by exploiting the acoustic similarity of phonemes across Indian languages, a polyglot speech corpus is obtained for ...

Instrumental intelligibility metrics are commonly used as an alternative to intelligibility listening tests. This paper evaluates 12 existing monaural intrusive instrumental intelligibility metrics: SII, HEGP, CSII, HASPI, NCM, QSTI, STOI, ESTOI, MIKNN, SIMI, SIIB, and sEPSM. The intelligibility data used in the evaluation were obtained from ten listening tests described in the literature. The ...

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...