the impact of speech rate on listening compression ability

The aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of speech rate on iranian intermediate efl learners listening comprehension ability. to achieve this purpose, forty-four participants intermediate language learners were selected based on their scores on a knowledge on an opt test as the randomly assigned to two groups experimental and control group. each group was exposed to as pre-test and post-test. at the end of the experiment, to see whether or not any changes happened regarding their comprehension with two different rates of speech. the results suggested that the participants who receive slow speech rate have higher listening comprehension ability after posttest comparing to control group.