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Mahmood Yenkimaleki; Vincent J. van Heuven; Mostafa Hosseini – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
The present study examines the effect of feedback (FB) and feedforward (FF) in prosody instruction for developing listening comprehension skills in the nonnative language by interpreter trainees, using a pretest-posttest-delayed posttest design. Three groups of 25 interpreter trainees at Bu-Ali Sina University in Iran took part in the study, all…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Suprasegmentals, Listening Comprehension, Listening Skills
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Yenkimaleki, Mahmood; van Heuven, Vincent J.; Moradimokhles, Hossein – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
In the present study, three groups of interpreter trainees were formed, two experimental groups, i.e., blended prosody instruction (BPI) and computer-assisted prosody training (CAPT), and one control group (CON). In this experiment the participants took part in a four-week teaching program for 16 sessions (60 minutes per session), i.e., 16 hours…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Computer Software, Pronunciation Instruction
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Liu, Yanmei; Zheng, Binghan – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2022
This study investigates the comparability of three parallel translation tasks selected from a College English Test Band-6 (CET-6) and explores the major linguistic features contributing to translation difficulty. Data obtained from the participants' subjective rating, eye-tracking, and performance evaluation were triangulated to measure the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Translation, Difficulty Level, Language Processing
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Jahangard, Ali – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
One of the most interesting studies on the role of L1 and contrastive analysis in vocabulary teaching is by Laufer and Girsai (2008). However, due to some methodological issues, their research findings are open to criticism and controversy. The current study aimed to replicate the research with a more rigorous design to re-investigate the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction