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Download full textSabet, Masood Khalili; Babaei, Hamid Reza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The challenge for many teachers teaching in academic English programs is, on the one hand, to actualize the objectives of their course and on the other hand, prepare their students for the important international tests such as IELTS and TOEFL. The current study seeks to reconcile this challenge by drawing on the relationship between the IELTS…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning
Direct linkSparks, Richard L.; Luebbers, Julie; Castañeda, Martha E. – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
Foreign language educators have developed measures to assess the proficiency of U.S. high school learners. Most have compared language learners to clearly defined criteria for proficiency in the language (criterion-referenced assessment) or to the performance of other monolingual English speakers (norm-referenced assessment). In this study, the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Reading Comprehension, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
Otair, Ibrahim; Aziz, Noor Hashima Abd – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
Anxiety is an important factor in foreign language learning. Very few studies have been done on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Saudi students in listening classes. Therefore, this pilot study was aimed at exploring the causes of listening comprehension anxiety from EFL Saudi learners' perspectives at Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia. The…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Semi Structured Interviews, English (Second Language)
Mak, Barley S. Y.; Cheung, Alan C. K.; Guo, Xin; Abrami, Philip C.; Wade, Anne – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
The current paper examined the effects of A Balanced Reading Approach for Children Always Designed to Achieve Best Results for All (ABRA), a web-based literacy programme developed by the the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) at Concordia University, on primary school children in Hong Kong. The participants were 249 Primary 1…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness
Valizadeh, Mohammad Reza; Alavinia, Parviz – English Language Teaching, 2013
The researchers in the current study were after probing the potential relationship between emotional intelligence, foreign language listening anxiety (FLLA), and listening comprehension performance of Iranian EFL learners. To this end, 233 participants, studying English language and literature at three different Universities in Urmia, were…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Emotional Intelligence, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Jin, Su-Hyun; Liu, Chang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the intelligibility of English consonants and vowels produced by Chinese-native (CN), and Korean-native (KN) students enrolled in American universities. Method: 16 English-native (EN), 32 CN, and 32 KN speakers participated in this study. The intelligibility of 16 American English consonants and 16…
Descriptors: North American English, Vowels, Phonemes, Foreign Students
Yang, Jie Chi; Chang, Peichin – ReCALL, 2014
For many EFL learners, listening poses a grave challenge. The difficulty in segmenting a stream of speech and limited capacity in short-term memory are common weaknesses for language learners. Specifically, reduced forms, which frequently appear in authentic informal conversations, compound the challenges in listening comprehension. Numerous…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Listening Comprehension
Lin, Lu-Fang – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study investigated whether video-based materials can facilitate second language learners' text comprehension at the levels of macrostructure and microstructure. Three classes inclusive of 98 Chinese-speaking university students joined this study. The three classes were randomly assigned to three treatment groups: on-screen text (T Group),…
Descriptors: Video Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students
Wang, Weili – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2016
This article reports on a small-scale intervention study that examined the impact of a metacognitive approach to listening instruction, in the form of a metacognitive pedagogical cycle, on Chinese university English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' listening proficiency and aspects of metacognitive knowledge over 10 weeks. During each week,…
Descriptors: Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tabrizi, Haleh Mojarrabi; Saeidi, Mahnaz – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study investigated the interrelationships among EFL learners' self-efficacy, autonomy and listening comprehension ability. Ninety female learners of intermediate level participated in the study. They were between 16 and 24 years old. In order to obtain the required data on the three variables (i.e., self-efficacy, autonomy, and listening…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Self Efficacy
Kim, Young-Suk – Child Development, 2015
Using data from children in South Korea (N = 145, M[subscript age] = 6.08), it was determined how low-level language and cognitive skills (vocabulary, syntactic knowledge, and working memory) and high-level cognitive skills (comprehension monitoring and theory of mind [ToM]) are related to listening comprehension and whether listening…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Predictor Variables, Listening Comprehension, Theory of Mind
Goh, Christine C. M.; Aryadoust, Vahid – International Journal of Listening, 2015
The testing and teaching of listening has been partially guided by the notion of subskills, or a set of listening abilities that are needed for achieving successful comprehension and utilization of the information from listening texts. Although this notion came about mainly through applications of theoretical perspectives from psychology and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Listening Skills, Measurement, Correlation
Uwalaka, A. J.; Offorma, G. C. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The study investigated the effect of constructivist teaching method on students' achievement in French listening comprehension in Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria. Achievement in French listening comprehension over the years has been discouraging. The conventional method of teaching French Language has not improved the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Constructivism (Learning), French, Second Language Learning
Joshi, R. Malatesha; Ji, Xuejun Ryan; Breznitz, Zvia; Amiel, Meirav; Yulia, Astri – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2015
The Simple View of Reading (SVR) in Hebrew was tested by administering decoding, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension measures to 1,002 students from Grades 2 to 10 in the northern part of Israel. Results from hierarchical regression analyses supported the SVR in Hebrew with decoding and listening comprehension measures explaining…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Reading Tests
Kim, Young-Suk Grace; Park, Cheahyung; Park, Younghee – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
We examined the relations of discourse-level oral language skills [i.e., listening comprehension, and oral retell and production of narrative texts (oral retell and production hereafter)] to reading comprehension and written composition. Korean-speaking first grade students (N = 97) were assessed on listening comprehension, oral retell and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Skills, Listening Comprehension, Recall (Psychology)
