The effect of metacognitive strategy instruction on L2 learner beliefs and listening skills [PDF]
, 2016 This pilot study investigated the effect of semester-long strategy-based instruction on learner beliefs and skills in the processing of aural input by adult learners of English as a second language at metacognitive and procedural levels.
Harbaugh, Allen G. +2 more
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Event Representations with Tensor-based Compositions
, 2017 Robust and flexible event representations are important to many core areas in language understanding. Scripts were proposed early on as a way of representing sequences of events for such understanding, and has recently attracted renewed attention ...
Balasubramanian, Niranjan +2 more
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A Case Study of Using Online Communities and Virtual Environment in Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) as a Learning and Teaching Tool for Second Language Learners [PDF]
, 2012 Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) create large virtual communities. Online gaming shows potential not just for entertaining, but also in education.
Kongmee, Isara +3 more
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Further Exploration of the Fluency Corpus of Academic English Lectures: The Profile of Repetitions
TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 2326-2341, December 2025.Abstract In assessment contexts, the domain definition inference requires accurate documentation of linguistic demands in a specific target domain for precise measurement. The present study examines several aspects of repetitions in academic lecture settings to offer the domain definition inference for academic listening tests.
Hitoshi Nishizawa
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The Use of Cloze Procedure to Test the Students Reading Comprehension [PDF]
, 2013 The use of cloze procedure to test the students reading comprehension. The purpose of this research is to know the effectiveness of the use of cloze procedure to test reading comprehension of the eleventh grade students of SMUN 1 Sungai Ambawang in ...
Buan, S. (Stevanus) +2 more
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TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 2035-2060, December 2025.Abstract This study examined if gaze‐contingent textual enhancement could be used as an interactive focus‐on‐form device to promote learning of second language (L2) collocations from computer‐mediated reading tasks. Seventy‐five Chinese ESL users read three English texts that contained twelve target collocations, presented under one of three conditions:
Jookyoung Jung +5 more
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CLOZE PASSAGE IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION
Eltin Journal, 2017 Using an effective practice of comprehending English text is another effort to improve reading comprehension of EFL students, especially the Indonesian students.
Yanuarti Apsari
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Reading-related skills of kindergarteners from diverse linguistic backgrounds [PDF]
, 2002 This study examined whether measures used to identify children at risk for reading failure are appropriate for children from different language backgrounds.
Chiappe, Penny +2 more
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Incorporating Structured Commonsense Knowledge in Story Completion
, 2018 The ability to select an appropriate story ending is the first step towards perfect narrative comprehension. Story ending prediction requires not only the explicit clues within the context, but also the implicit knowledge (such as commonsense) to ...
Chen, Jiaao, Chen, Jianshu, Yu, Zhou
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Listening at different scales: Sociolinguistic perception and the listening subject
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.Abstract This commentary argues that sociophonetic perception studies and linguistic anthropological analyses of the listening subject examine the same underlying process—ideologically structured listening—though at different observational scales.
Anna‐Marie Sprenger
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