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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

On College Students’ Listening Anxiety and Listening Strategy

open access: yesTheory and Practice in Language Studies, 2021
Research on college students’ listening anxiety and listening strategy has become a hot issue and attracts much concern of scholars and experts in the second language acquisition. Some researches prove that listening anxiety is universal and pervasive in the language learning process and listening strategy plays a crucial role in lowering or reducing ...
openaire   +2 more sources

INVESTIGATING EFL STUDENTS’ LISTENING ANXIETY: A SURVEY AT UIN ANTASARI BANJARMASIN

open access: yesLET: Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching Journal, 2018
Listening anxiety is an influential factor that obstructs the EFL learners’ listening comprehension.  This research is conducted to find out the levels of listening anxiety of the third semester students of English department at Tarbiyah and Teachers ...
Noor Maulidiyah
doaj   +1 more source

Repeating the Listening Text: Effects on Listener Performance, Metacognitive Strategy Use, and Anxiety

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, 2023
AbstractIn second language listening assessment and pedagogy, practitioners hold different views on whether to repeat a listening text in contexts where inferences about listening ability are to be drawn from task performance. To address this issue, we investigated the effects of repeating the listening text (double play) on listener performance ...
Franz Holzknecht, Luke Harding
openaire   +2 more sources

A Comparative Study of Listening Anxiety and Reading Anxiety

open access: yesProcedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013
AbstractThe purpose of this study is to examine the relationships among gender, education level and language anxiety, specifically associated with two major language skills i.e. listening and reading. Participants in this study were 159 EFL learners majoring at English Language Teaching Department at a Turkish university.
Capan, Seyit Ahmet, Karaca, Mehmet
openaire   +1 more source

The Mediating Effect of Listening Metacognitive Awareness between Test-Taking Motivation and Listening Test Score: An Expectancy-Value Theory Approach

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
The present study investigated test-taking motivation in L2 listening testing context by applying Expectancy-Value Theory as the framework. Specifically, this study was intended to examine the complex relationships among expectancy, importance, interest,
Jian Xu
doaj   +1 more source

Reporting quality of music intervention research in healthcare: A systematic review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
INTRODUCTION: Concomitant with the growth of music intervention research, are concerns about inadequate intervention reporting and inconsistent terminology, which limits validity, replicability, and clinical application of findings.
Allison, Megan   +13 more
core   +1 more source

Immersive Composition for Sensory Rehabilitation: 3D Visualisation, Surround Sound, and Synthesised Music to Provoke Catharsis and Healing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
There is a wide range of sensory therapies using sound, music and visual stimuli. Some focus on soothing or distracting stimuli such as natural sounds or classical music as analgesic, while other approaches emphasize the active performance of producing ...
A. Cohen   +9 more
core   +1 more source

The Effect of Listening Strategy Instruction on Second Language Listening Anxiety and Self-Efficacy of Iranian EFL Learners

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2020
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of listening strategy instruction on second language (L2) listening comprehension ability, listening anxiety, and listening self-efficacy of Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL ...
Jalil Fathi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patient anxiety and modern elective surgery: a literature review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Medical advances have led to a considerable rise in the level of elective surgery undertaken as day-case surgery and with minimal hospital stay. However, amid such advances, preoperative psychological care has remained relatively static.
Mitchell, MJ
core   +1 more source

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