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Ibrahim, Nizar Kamal – English Language Education, 2022
This book discusses how to approach critical literacy in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts. It responds to the concerns of educators who get enthusiastic about teaching critical literacy, but become perplexed when they start reading about its theories. This causes some to avoid it altogether and leads others to argue for practicing it…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Etsuo Taguchi; Greta Gorsuch; Kristin Lems; Hiroto Toda; Toshiko Kawaguchi; Kirsten M. Snipp – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This paper examines learners' fluency development in L2 silent reading rate and comprehension. In both L1 and L2 readings, a positive relationship between readers' silent reading rate and comprehension has not been as firmly established as theories might propose. Based on Wallot et al. (2014), the paper indicates the need to look at readers'…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency
Ommundsen, Åse Marie, Ed.; Haaland, Gunnar, Ed.; Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2021
What should children and students read? This volume explores challenging picturebooks as learning materials in early childhood education, primary and secondary school, and even universities. It addresses a wide range of thematic, cognitive, and aesthetic challenges and educational affordances of picturebooks in various languages and from different…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Teaching Methods, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Ju Seong Lee, Editor; Di Zou, Editor; Michelle Mingyue Gu, Editor – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2024
This edited book explores the integration of technology into English language education, with a particular focus on extracurricular and extramural contexts. The editors and an international team of scholars discuss how English teachers can critically and systematically design and implement language activities inside and outside the classroom to…
Descriptors: Guides, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Guler, Nilufer, Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
Teaching English language learners has long presented challenges for teachers tasked with bringing these students to a level of language comprehension comparable to that of native speakers. These challenges and issues can lead to difficulty comprehending core academic topics for those learning the English language. "Optimizing Elementary…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Elementary School Students, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Birch, Barbara M. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2007
This book remains a comprehensive, myth-debunking examination of how L1 features (orthographic system, phonology, morphology) can influence English L2 reading at the "bottom" of the reading process. It provides a thorough but very accessible linguistic/psycholinguistic examination of the lowest levels of the reading process. It is both theoretical…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Instruction
Slavin, Robert E.; Cheung, Alan – Success for All Foundation, 2004
This paper reviews experimental studies of reading programs for English language learners, focusing on comparisons of various bilingual and English-only programs. The review method is best-evidence synthesis, which uses a systematic literature search, quantification of outcomes as effect sizes, and extensive discussion of individual studies that…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Student Evaluation

Kleinmann, Howard H. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1985
Explains the Monitor Model of adult second-language development. Describes a study conducted at Queens College to assess the value of mandatory reading laboratory attendance for English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students. (DMM)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, English (Second Language), Reading Achievement
Block, Cathy Collins, Ed.; Parris, Sheri R., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2008
Now in a substantially revised and updated second edition, this comprehensive professional resource and text is based on cutting-edge research. In each chapter, leading scholars provide an overview of a particular aspect of comprehension, offer best-practice instructional guidelines and policy recommendations, present key research questions still…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Global Approach
Rigg, Pat, Ed.; Enright, D. Scott, Ed. – 1986
Seven essays address aspects of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction for children, seen from a variety of perspectives: research, teaching, and ethnography. They include: "Introduction: Children and ESL" (D. Scott Enright, Pat Rigg); "ESL Teachers as Language Advocates for Children" (Courtney Cazden); "ESL Children's Writing: What We've…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Child Language, Children, Classroom Techniques
Slavin, Robert E., Ed.; Calderon, Margarita, Ed. – 2001
This collection of papers presents the current state of research on effective instructional programs for Hispanic American students. The 10 chapters are: (1) "Effective Programs for Latino Students in Elementary and Middle Schools" (Olatokunbo S. Fashola, Robert E. Slavin, Margarita Calderon, and Richard Duran); (2) "Effective…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Curriculum, Diversity (Student)
McKenna, Michael C., Ed.; Labbo, Linda D., Ed.; Kieffer, Ronald D., Ed.; Reinking, David, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2006
This "Handbook" provides a comprehensive and international representation of state-of-the art research, theory, and practice related to principal areas in which significant developments are occurring in the study of literacy and technology. It offers a glimpse of the commonalities faced by literacy educators around the world, together…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Software, Internet, Teacher Education
Hoag, Lydia, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2004
A growing number of American students are nonnative English speakers. These students are vulnerable to early school exit and schools are facing more and more such students each year. Presently, about 56% of all public school teachers in the United States have at least one English language learner (ELL) student in their class, but less than 20% of…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Second Language Learning, Politics of Education, Instructional Leadership