abstractlistening plays a significant role in daily communication and educational processes. in spite of its importance, listening has long been the neglected skill in second and foreign language acquisition, research, teaching, and assessment. however, on account of the entire challenges efl learners encounter in classrooms due to the listening complexity, some pre-listening activities as supp...

the concept and phenomena of listening is inevitably, consciously or unconsciously in their daily encounter, hence it is necessary to acquire more knowledge in order to have effective utilization of this concept. the art and skill of good listening will utgrade the quality of our communication with our coworkers and other organization members and enables us to catch the attention, sympathy, aff...

This research was conducted to measure Persian EFL students’s degree of willingness to write in English. To reach the goal, semi-structured interviews were conducted, deriving inspiration from earlier works of McCrosky and Baer (1985), MacIntyre, Dornyei, Clement, and Noels (1998), and Yashima (2002) on willingness to communicate. The participants of the study were 29 individuals comprising 23 ...

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره نوزدهم، شهریور 1399، 554-553       چگونه یک گزارش کوتاه بنویسیم؟ How to Write a Short Report?   محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian     گزارش‌های کوتاه (Short reports) زمانی به رشته تحریر در می‌آیند که داده‌های حاصل از یک مطالعه آنقدر زیاد نباشد که نوشتن یک مقاله کامل را توجیه نماید [1]. هم‌چنین، برخی مجلات نیز علاقمند هستند تا ...

Phonemic confusions in L2 listening lead to three types of problem at the lexical level: inability to distinguish minimal pairs (e.g. write, light), spurious activation of embedded words (e.g. write in delighted) and delay in resolution of ambiguity (e.g. distinction between register and legislate at the sixth instead of the first phoneme) The statistics of each of these, computed from a 70,000...

abstractthis study aims to highlight the key roles played by metacognitive strategies training in the development of listening comprehension skill and self-regulation strategies of efl learners. the participants of this study (n = 60) were female iranian students assigned to two groups of experimental and control in kish english language institute. learners in the experimental group received 6-...

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 following explains what mappings have been chosen for a sonification of several data channels from set containing a recording of the neural activity of a person listening to a piece of music. This piece, and also the sonification, is exactly 300 seconds long. My aim is to provide a sonification/composition that can be created in (near) real-time and takes its title literally. This is done b...

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...