Download or read book The Effect of Speech Rate on Listening Comprehension of Efl Learners written by Hossein Matoori and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents interesting result of a research on listening comprehension of EFL learners where there is too much concern on how to decide on speech rate. Speech rate is given a key role as the most important factor effecting listening comprehension and also causing a great deal of anxiety for EFL learners. There are two types of speech rate studied here, slow speech rate ( VOA special English) and natural speech rate ranging from movies, cartoons, news radio, speeches, to soap operas.
Download or read book The Effect of Rate of Speech and CALL Design Features on EFL Listening Comprehension and Strategy Use written by Kara Angela McBride and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The data support the previous research but also suggest that design features can affect L2 learners either positively or negatively. This study, which was done with Chilean, college-level students of English as a foreign language (EFL), has implications for CALL design and classroom teaching, as well as language testing. These are discussed, as are suggestions for future research.
Download or read book The Effects of Rate controlled Speech on Advanced Chinese EFL Learners Short term Listening Comprehension and Confidence written by Peter Ko and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Syntactic Modification and Speech Rate on EFL Listening Comprehension written by Hui-chun Teng and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impact of Using Advance Organizers Modifying Speech Rates and Listening Proficiency Level on Tertiary Level EFL Learners Listening Comprehension written by Khadijeh Jafari Bezminabadi and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teaching Foreign Language Skills written by Wilga M. Rivers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original publication in 1968, Rivers's comprehensive and practical text has become a standard reference for both student teachers and veteran instructors. All who wish to draw from the most recent thinking in the field will welcome this new edition. Methodology is appraised, followed up by discussions on such matters as keeping students of differing abilities active, evaluating textbooks, using language labs creatively, and preparing effective exercises and drills. The author ends each chapter of this new edition with questions for research and discussion—a useful classroom tool—and provides an up-to-date bibliography that facilitates further understanding of such matters as the bilingual classroom.
Download or read book Listening in the Language Classroom written by John Field and published by Cambridge Language Teaching Library. This book was released on 2008 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the orthodox approach to the teaching of second language listening, which is based upon the asking and answering of comprehension questions. The book's central argument is that a preoccupation with the notion of 'comprehension' has led teachers to focus upon the product of listening, in the form of answers to questions, ignoring the listening process itself. The author provides an informed account of the psychological processes which make up the skill of listening, and analyses the characteristics of the speech signal from which listeners have to construct a message. Drawing upon this information, the book proposes a radical alternative to the comprehension approach and provides for intensive small-scale practice in aspects of listening that are perceptually or cognitively demanding for the learner. Listening in the Language Classroom was winner of the Ben Warren International Trust House Prize in 2008.
Download or read book The Effects of Captioned Videos on Listening Comprehension and their Consequences for the EFL Classroom written by Line Schneider and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,0, University of Duisburg-Essen (Anglophone Studies), course: Teaching and Assessing Learners - EFL, language: English, abstract: Firstly, this work will elaborate on the importance of listening comprehension and refer to further paralinguistic features that are required to understand video material. Furthermore, it will give reasons to incorporate videos in the EFL (English as a foreign language) classroom. In the analytic part of this paper, it will deal with the contradictory findings of some selected studies on captioned videos. It will additionally elaborate different approaches and suggestions for foreign language teachers and their teaching. In recent years, the media have developed rapidly and in many ways. In the same way, there have been many changes in foreign language teaching. From voice recordings, radios to videos, the way teaching is organized has changed and is changing constantly. Ever since excerpts from a radio recording and voice recordings were introduced into foreign language teaching, they have been carefully selected by teachers and embedded, for example, in a task or exercise; learners listened attentively to the audio and tried to solve the task set. But how do you proceed with a video, which offers a visual and an auditive form of representation? Despite much research and knowledge, some questions about the relatively new medium of video remain unanswered. One of these questions is the usefulness of captioned videos.
Download or read book Listening Comprehension For EFL Learners written by Yeasy Agustina Sari, M.Pd and published by Agree Media Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book, entitled Listening Comprehension for EFL Learners, aims to provide insight into one of the language skills, namely listening. Listening comprehension is the highest stage in listening learning. Although the discussion in this book only focuses on the problem of listening comprehension and the listening part of the TOEFL test, it is hoped that this book will still be able to guide EFL learners, especially students who are preparing for the TOEFL test.
Download or read book Teaching and Learning English in East Asian Universities written by Lan Li and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 25 chapters contained in this book were all written by scholars working in the field of applied linguistics and English language teaching in various East Asian contexts. East Asia is large and diverse in terms of socio-economic, linguistic, and ethnic parameters. Statistics alone cannot give a clear understanding of what goes on in rural and urban universities and what challenges English language teachers and learners face in those contexts. To understand this wide gamut of issues in English language teaching in East Asia is thus a very large undertaking. The book addresses some of these issues, arranging its 25 chapters into five sections: namely, Assessing Language Performance; Teaching English Writing; Learner Autonomy; Corpus and Discourse Research; and Learning English in East Asian Contexts. Many of the chapters in this volume concern familiar topics such as linking assessment to teaching, learning and curriculum; conducting assessment validation research; examining meta-cognitive strategies; investigating teaching and learning English for academic purposes; and profiling prevailing word lists for language learners. Other chapters are on novel or lesser known topics such as non-verbal delivery in speaking assessment; the use of visualization as a reading strategy; learner strategies in a Facebook corpus; effects of discourse signaling cues and rate of speech; and an ontogenetic analysis of college English textbooks. Collectively, these chapters showcase English language learning, teaching, and assessing in a range of contexts using a variety of methods and techniques to deal with issues relevant to East Asian teachers, learners and researchers.
Download or read book Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning written by Eli Hinkel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume III of the Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning, like Volumes I and II, is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current research into social contexts of second language (L2)/foreign language (FL) teaching and learning; language policy; curriculum; types of instruction; incremental language skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar; international communication; pragmatics; assessment and testing. It differs from earlier volumes in its main purpose—to provide a more in-depth discussion and detailed focus on the development of the essential language skills required for any type of communication: speaking, listening, reading, vocabulary, grammar, and writing. Volume III preserves continuity with previous volumes in its coverage of all the classical areas of research in L2/FL teaching and learning and applied linguistics, but rather than offering a historical review of disciplinary traditions, it explores innovations and new directions of research, acknowledges the enormous complexity of teaching and learning the essential language abilities, and offers a diversity of perspectives. Chapter authors are all leading authorities in their disciplinary areas. What’s new in Volume III? Updates the prominent areas of research, including the sub-disciplines addressed in Volumes I and II, and represents the disciplinary mainstays Considers and discusses perspectives held by different schools of thought on the what, the how, and the why of teaching foundational language skills, including theories, pedagogical principles, and their implementation in practice Captures new and ongoing developments and trends in the key areas of L2/FL teaching and learning, and innovative research topics that have gained substantial recognition in current publications, including the role of corpora, technology, and digital literacy in L2/FL teaching and learning Examines new trends in language pedagogy and research, such as an increased societal emphasis on teaching academic language for schooling, somewhat contradictory definitions of literacy, and the growing needs for instruction in intercultural communication.
Download or read book The Effects of Listening Comprehension on English Language Learners Writing Performance While Taking Notes written by Juary De Brito and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main goal of this investigation is to examine the effects of listening comprehension on English Language Learners' (ELLs) writing performance while taking notes. A total of 30 ELLs were administered a questionnaire in order to find out the difficulties they face when taking notes. The results indicates that student face various difficulties when taking notes, citing speech rate and different range of accent as the main problems. It was concluded that during the note taking process students could perform better if they were exposed first to any teaching materials like a power point or a hand out to improve their understanding and to assist their note-taking. It was also recommend to teachers to encourage students to use various kind of note taking techniques such as diagrams, abbreviations, and symbols that can increase their note taking efficiency and improve their ability to record more information and to avoid incomplete or inaccurate notes.
Download or read book Second Language Listening written by John Flowerdew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an essential part of communicative competence, listening is a skill which deserves equal treatment with the other basic skills of speaking, reading, and writing. Second Language Listening combines up-to-date listening theory with case studies of actual pedagogical practice. The authors describe current models of listening theory and exemplify each with a textbook task. They address the role of technology in teaching listening, questioning techniques, and testing. Second Language Listening is designed to be used with both pre-service and in-service teachers who are involved in the teaching of listening or the design of pedagogic materials for listening.
Download or read book Handbook of Second Language Assessment written by Dina Tsagari and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second language assessment is ubiquitous. It has found its way from education into questions about access to professions and migration. This volume focuses on the main debates and research advances in second language assessment in the last fifty years or so, showing the influence of linguistics, politics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and psychometrics. There are four parts which, when taken together, address the principles and practices of second language assessment while considering its impact on society. Read separately, each part addresses a different aspect of the field. Part I deals with the conceptual foundations of second language assessment with chapters on the purposes of assessment, and standards and frameworks, as well as matters of scoring, quality assurance, and test validation. Part II addresses the theory and practice of assessing different second language skills including aspects like intercultural competence and fluency. Part III examines the challenges and opportunities of second language assessment in a range of contexts. In addition to chapters on second language assessment on a national scale, there are chapters on learning-oriented assessment, as well as the uses of second language assessment in the workplace and for migration. Part IV examines a selection of important issues in the field that deserve attention. These include the alignment of language examinations to external frameworks, the increasing use of technology to both deliver and score second language tests, the responsibilities associated with assessing test takers with special needs, the concept of 'voice' in second language assessment, and assessment literacy for teachers and other test and score users.
Download or read book Research in Technology and Second Language Education written by Yong Zhao and published by Information Age Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2005 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Rate Controlled Speech on the Listening Comprehension of Learning Disabled and Normal Children written by Joan K. Teach and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Text in Education and Society written by Desmond Allison and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central place of ?text? as a means of organising language in order to construct what people come to think of as ?knowledge? is a phenomenon affecting all educators, students, and citizens of modern societies. This volume offers various voices and perspectives including those of Ron Carter and Michael Halliday on the role of text in education and society. The chapters on text in education explore some ways in which texts can create bonds or raise barriers between educational knowledge and common-sense knowledge, while the chapters on text in society focus on how personalities and societies are themselves constructed through texts. Learning to unpack texts, and to consider alternatives, is a crucial goal for education and growth, especially so in the context of fast-changing contemporary societies.This book should be of special interest to educators, students of language, and readers interested in the dynamic relationship between text, education and society.
