Listening comprehension lies at the heart of language learning, but it is the least understood
and least researched skill. This paper brings together recent research and developments in …

Theoretically motivated, empirical research into taskbased language learning has been
prompted by proposals for taskbased language teaching. In this review I describe early and …

Thought processes of seven artist-level jazz musicians, each of whom recorded an
improvised solo, were investigated. Immediately after completing their improvisations …

Background Discourse is fundamental to everyday communication, and is an increasing
focus of clinical assessment, intervention and research. Aphasia can affect the information a …

Now in its second edition, this reader-friendly text offers a comprehensive treatment of
concepts and knowledge related to teaching second language (L2) listening, with a …

Discourse (a unit of language longer than a single sentence) is fundamental to everyday
communication. People with aphasia (a language impairment occurring most frequently after …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to improve our understanding of the language
characteristics of people with latent aphasia using measures that examined temporal (ie …

Background: The aim of lexical retrieval treatment for people with anomia is not just to
improve accessibility of lexical items for confrontation naming but to carry over this …

Current Englishasasecond and foreignlanguage (ESL/EFL) research has encouraged
to treat each communicative macroskill separately due to space constraint, but the …

This study investigated whether a treatment programme for spoken word retrieval,
supplemented with written naming, was beneficial for an individual with right-hemisphere …