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Listening is my bugbear: Why Iranian L2 learners keep underperforming in the listening module

open access: yesActa Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2017
This paper shares the results of a study into the way Iranian TEF or TEFAQ candidates treat the listening comprehension as a skill as well as their awareness and exploitation of metacognitive strategies while listening to an audio document.
Novid Armiun   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Strategy training in the classroom to improve listening skills [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Mexican students learning English as a second language (ESL) face difficulties in listening due to factors such as anxiety and lack of strategies to deal with listening.
ARIZMENDI GONZALEZ, GRACIELA   +1 more
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War Stories; How Experienced Teachers Said They Responded To Disruptive Students In The Lifelong Learning Sector [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This small-scale qualitative research inquiry investigates how a small sample of experienced teachers dealt with disruptive students in their classes in the Lifelong Learning Sector (LLS) in West Yorkshire.
Lebor, Merv
core   +2 more sources

Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

Indonesian EFL students’ anxiety factors and solutions for listening comprehension: Multiple case study

open access: yesStudies in English Language and Education
Students’ anxiousness affects the EFL listening process. Listening anxiety is also an aspect that may impact a foreign language student’s success or failure in listening comprehension.
Annisa Astrid   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

AN INVESTIGATION OF LISTENING COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES USED BY SIXTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM AT UNIVERSITY OF BENGKULU

open access: yesJournal of English Education and Teaching, 2019
This research aims to find out the listening comprehension strategies used by sixth semester students of English Education Study Program at University of Bengkulu.
Afrian Reastu Prayogi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developing and Improving EFL Writing Skills [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Learning a foreign language is a process that entails the development of four basic skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing. According to the Common European Framework, such skills can be grouped into productive and receptive.
Tuero, Susana B.
core  

Listening Comprehension: Explicit Training on Listening Strategies in Beginning L2 Learners.

open access: yesBELT – Brazilian English Language Teaching Journal, 2015
The aim of the present study was to investigate the performance scores on a standardized proficiency exam after two months of explicit training on listening comprehension strategies. Two groups of adult learners of English as a foreign language (24 students in total) took part in this study.
Aline Fay de Azevedo, Augusto Buchweitz
openaire   +2 more sources

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling the relationships between EFL learners' construct-relevant and -irrelevant strategies in listening test performance

open access: yesActa Psychologica
The strategic processes that contribute to construct-relevant variations in test results (such as metacognitive and cognitive strategies) and construct-irrelevant variances (such as test-wiseness strategies) have been identified in both practice and ...
Nick Zhiwei Bi, Yue Wang
doaj   +1 more source

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