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Direct linkMahmood 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
Download full textAl-Ghazalli, Mehdi Falih; Al-Shammary, Mohanad A. Amert – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the pragmatic difficulties encountered by Iraqi EFL university students in producing the speech act of apology. Although the act of apology is easy to recognize or use by native speakers of English, non-native speakers generally encounter difficulties in discriminating one speech act from another. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Speech Acts
Peer reviewedBahns, Jens; Eldaw, Moira – System, 1993
German advanced English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) students' productive knowledge of English collocations consisting of a verb and a noun were investigated in a translation task and a close task. Results suggest that EFL students should concentrate on collocations that cannot readily be paraphrased. The tasks are appended. (32 references)…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Idioms
Peer reviewedBowen, David; Bowen, Margareta – ADFL Bulletin, 1985
Discusses the entrance examination used by Georgetown University's Division of Interpretation and Translation, which follows the American Association of Language Specialists system. The skills tested are comprehension of content and purpose of discourse, expression in the target language, and speed of work. The condidates' general background is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interpreters, Interpretive Skills, Language Skills
