The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the recommended/required use of face masks in
public. The use of a face mask compromises communication, especially in the presence of …

The importance of materials in learning and teaching has prompted a substantial number of
studies on English language learning/teaching materials (ELLTM). To date, the field seems …

Purpose: Twenty years ago, von Hapsburg and Peña (2002) wrote a tutorial that reviewed
the literature on speech audiometry and bilingualism and outlined valuable …

Current evidence demonstrates that even though some non-native listeners can achieve
native-like performance for speech perception tasks in quiet, the presence of a background …

Speech communication in a non-native language (L2) can feel effortful, and the present
study suggests that this effort affects both auditory and lexical processing. EEG recordings …

Purpose The authors sought to investigate interactions among intelligibility-enhancing
speech cues (ie, semantic context, clearly produced speech, and visual information) across …

The role of visual cues in native listeners' perception of speech produced by nonnative
speakers has not been extensively studied. Native perception of English sentences …

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to investigate the impacts of a surgical mask and a
transparent mask on audio-only and audiovisual speech intelligibility in noise (ie, 0 dB …

Extensive research shows that inter-talker variability (ie, changing the talker) affects
recognition memory for speech signals. However, relatively little is known about the …

In spite of the existence of writing courses for postgraduate students in English-as-a-foreign-
language (EFL) contexts, their academic writing proficiency remains low. Therefore, EFL …