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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"Listening Comprehension"”.
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Listening comprehension strategies of Arabic-speaking ESL learners
… goal of this investigation was to identify the listening strategies of advanced and intermediate second language listeners in English and to compare the listening strategies of both groups of research participants. A total of 30 Arabic-speaking ESL learners were administered a listening …
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The effects of speech patterns on listening comprehension
This study was undertaken in an effort to determine the effect of compensatory education on achievement and the self concepts of students in inner city schools. The subjects for this study were chosen from the third, fourth, and fifth grades of the Lincoln, Longfellow, Blaine, and Garfield public …
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Technology Reading Programs and Their Impact on Listening Comprehension
… reading programs have on second grade students’ listening comprehension as well as, their experiences with the programs. Student participants used three reading programs daily on an iPad to assess student listening comprehension through five question assessments. The three programs used in this …
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Enhancing Listening Comprehension Skills Through Exposure to Authentic Conversation
<p>In this field project, the author created a listening comprehension workbook for adult ESL students. The emphasis of the project was to improve the listening comprehension abilities of students through exposing them to authentic American English. The recordings were provided by …
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Listening comprehension in the native language: An experimental study
Abstract not available.
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The Effect of Listening Skills Instruction on Listening Comprehension
… to determine if there was a difference in the listening comprehension achievement scores of students who received listening skills instruction, and students who received traditional instruction only. Two fifth grade intact classrooms were used as the sample. The subjects consisted of 25 …
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The Effect of Modality Preference on Reading and Listening Comprehension
… effect of modality preference on the reading and listening comprehension of fifty-three fourth graders was studied by comparing the results from two modality preference tests with the scores from reading and listening tasks, which included multiple-choice questions on the literal and inferential …
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Differentiated Instruction: Strategies for English Language Learners Listening Comprehension Development
… Because more attention and practice is needed on listening skills, knowledge in differentiated instruction and the different strategies to teach listening skills can be used together to help develop English language learners listening comprehension skills. Of particular interest to this research …
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Reading comprehension and listening comprehension in children: An individual differences investigation
Little research has explored listening comprehension in children whereas reading comprehension has been extensively investigated. One of the reasons for this is that listening comprehension and reading comprehension are highly correlated and it is generally assumed that they draw on the same …
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Lexical and grammatical knowledge in second language reading and listening comprehension
… learners' knowledge of linguistic factors and comprehension are investigated in this study. Two research questions are addressed: (1) what is the relationship of lexical and grammatical knowledge to foreign language comprehension? and (2) do lexical and grammatical knowledge play the same or …
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An Examination of the Confounding in Measures of Foreign Language Listening Comprehension
Most current foreign language listening comprehension tests require examinees to read and understand multiple choice (MC) items printed in the test booklet in order to make responses. As a result, reading is confounded with listening in such tests. This study proposed a true-false (T-F) listening …
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Diagnosing L2 English Learners’ Listening comprehension abilities with Scripted and Unscripted Listening Texts
L2 listening research has moved toward a focus on understanding the process of listening. However, there are still few detailed studies of L2 listening that reveal learners’ comprehension processes when listening to scripted and unscripted listening texts. Studies in which such processing has been …
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Auditory skills and listening comprehension in English second language learners in Grade 1
… in the classroom may not only be attributed to listening comprehension of the language of learning and teaching (LoLT). Limited research is available on the auditory skills and listening comprehension in ESL learners younger than 12 years. Aim: To determine which areas of auditory skills and …
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The design and evaluation of a multimedia application for a second language listening comprehension
… of instant real-time feedback to on-line listening tasks was shown to increase comprehension. Subtitled-video was shown to be more effective for comprehension and language recall than other combinations of learning resources. Finally, there was clear evidence indicating the implicit …
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The Effects of Listening Comprehension on English Language Learners Writing Performance while Taking Notes
… 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 …
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On listening comprehension: Linguistic strategies used by second language learners in non-collaborative discourse
… (1) determining which task reveals more comprehension by L2 listeners when they listen to a passage in non-collaborative discourse; (2) identifying the introspective strategies used to comprehend the aural passage.
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The Effects of the Use of Retellings on the Listening Comprehension of First Grade Students
… direct teaching of the use of retellings on the listening comprehension of twenty-two first grade students from a public elementary school in Western New York. The examiner administered the listening comprehension portion of The Bader Reading and Language Inventory to determine the students' …
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A Study of the Relationships and Differences Between Students' Oral Reading and Listening Comprehension Performances
… between a group of children's oral reading comprehension performance levels and their listening comprehension performance levels on the Spache Diagnostic Reading Scales. A review of literature lent support to the contention that listening is of importance, especially in the primary grades. …
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Using Authentic Materials to Develop Listening Comprehension in the English as a Second Language Classroom
Listening, the most frequently used form of language skill, plays a significant role in daily communication and educational process. In spite of its importance, listening ability development has received only slight emphasis in language instruction. Nevertheless, U.S. college classrooms, where …
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