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Mahmood Yenkimaleki; Vincent J. van Heuven; Mostafa Hosseini – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
The present study examines the effect of feedback (FB) and feedforward (FF) in prosody instruction for developing listening comprehension skills in the nonnative language by interpreter trainees, using a pretest-posttest-delayed posttest design. Three groups of 25 interpreter trainees at Bu-Ali Sina University in Iran took part in the study, all…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Suprasegmentals, Listening Comprehension, Listening Skills
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Seyedeh Azadeh Ghiasian; Fatemeh Hemmati; Seyyed Mohammad Alavi; Afsar Rouhi – International Journal of Language Testing, 2025
A critical component of cognitive diagnostic models (CDMs) is a Q-matrix that stipulates associations between items of a test and their required attributes. The present study aims to develop and empirically validate a Q-matrix for the listening comprehension section of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). To this end, a…
Descriptors: Test Items, Listening Comprehension Tests, English (Second Language), Language Tests
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Yenkimaleki, Mahmood; van Heuven, Vincent J.; Soodmand Afshar, Hassan – Language Learning Journal, 2023
The present study investigated the efficacy of segmental/suprasegmental vs. holistic pronunciation instruction in the development of listening comprehension skills by EFL learners, using a pre-test post-test design. Six groups of 20 intermediate EFL learners at a university in Iran took part in the study, all groups receiving the same amount of…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Intonation, Pronunciation Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Mirfatemi, Fatemeh; Sadeghi, Amir; Niyazi, Mitra P. – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
Supra-segmental features refer to various forms of intonation and how words and sentences are uttered. Such features challenge meaning and comprehension, too. Despite the importance of these features and their reported association with phonological awareness and linguistic comprehension, their effects on reading comprehension have not been…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Mansoory, Niloofar; Jafarpour, Mohsen – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This study examined teaching SP of English verbs through the data-driven learning (DDL) approach and its effect on learners' vocabulary choice appropriateness in the Persian English foreign language (EFL) context. In the present study, two male intact classes were selected. One of these two classes was randomly selected as a treatment group and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Verbs, Teaching Methods
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Ahmadian, Moussa; Yazdani, Hooshang; Darabi, Ali – English Language Teaching, 2011
This paper introduces a corpus-driven measure as a method to assess EFL learners' knowledge of semantic prosody. Semantic prosody here is defined as the tendency of some words to occur in a certain semantic environment. For example, the verb "cause" is associated with unpleasant things--death, problem and the like. Subjects were 60…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning