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Direct linkYang Dong; Chow Bonnie Wing-Yin; Jianhong Mo; Xuecong Miao; Hao-Yuan Zheng; Hang Dong; Mingmin Zhang – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Reading comprehension and arithmetic skills are essential abilities for children, particularly at the early career. Examine the link between language proficiency and numeral information process amongst primary school children. This study examines numeral comprehension in 600 Chinese primary second graders with different levels of decoding and…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Reading Comprehension, Arithmetic, Number Concepts
Wesley A. Hoover – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Common depictions of the simple view of reading (SVR), in both research and practice, describe reading comprehension difficulties by using the dichotomous variables of "poor" and "good" for each of its three constructs. But these fail to accurately capture the role the product of the two subcomponents of word recognition and…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Word Recognition, Language Proficiency
Download full textHitoshi Mikami – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2023
Facilitating anxiety in second language (L2) learning research has not been thoroughly discussed for both methodological and conceptual reasons. This trend is also evident in the field of L2 reading, where reading anxiety has been viewed as a negative force. This study takes the initial step to explore the nature of facilitating anxiety in L2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Mohammad Ahmadi Safa; Fateme Motaghi – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Studies have documented the significance of scaffolding as a sociocultural theory driven type of assistance for the development of English as foreign language (EFL) learners' language skills in general; however, the comparative efficacy of various cognitive and/or metacognitive scaffolding procedures for EFL learners' listening comprehension…
Descriptors: Correlation, Listening Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
A. J. Benjamin Clarke – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
Multicomponent perspectives on second language reading proficiency offer a contemporary understanding of reading and its development (e.g., Yamashita, 2022). In this web-based experiment, we investigated the relationship among L2 reading proficiency measures--reading comprehension, listening comprehension, reading fluency--and component reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Chengyuan Jia; Khe Foon Hew; Mingting Li – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Listening is a major challenge for many English-as-a-foreign language (EFL) learners. Decoding training, which helps learners develop the ability to recognize words from speech, is frequently used to assist EFL learners. Although recent empirical studies on decoding training have provided positive evidence on its effectiveness in improving EFL…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Teresa Julio-Ramos; Valentina Mora-Castelletto; José Conejeros-Pavez; Josette Saez-Martínez; Pía Solinas-Ivys; Pamela Donoso; Bernardita Soler-León; Silvia Martínez-Ferreiro; Camilo Quezada; Carolina Méndez-Orellana – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: The abbreviated version of the Token Test (aTT) is widely used to assess language comprehension deficits in stroke patients (SPs). However, aTT has not been validated for Latin American Spanish speakers, so clinicians tend to use cut-off scores for aTT validated in developed countries. Aims: To provide normative data for the Spanish…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Comprehension, Disabilities
Lee, Shinhye – ETS Research Report Series, 2022
In response to the calls for making key stakeholders' perspectives relevant in the test validation process, the study discussed in this report sought test-taker feedback as part of collecting validity evidence and supporting the ongoing field testing efforts of the new "TOEFL ITP"® Speaking section. Specifically, I aimed to investigate…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Test Validity
Noam Siegelman; Irina Elgort; Marc Brysbaert; Niket Agrawal; Simona Amenta; Jasmina Arsenijevic Mijalkovic; Christine S. Chang; Daria Chernova; Fabienne Chetail; A. J. Benjamin Clarke; Alain Content; Davide Crepaldi; Nastag Davaabold; Shurentsetseg Delgersuren; Avital Deutsch; Veronika Dibrova; Denis Drieghe; Dušica Filipovic Ðurdevic; Brittany Finch; Ram Frost; Carolina A. Gattei; Esther Geva; Aline Godfroid; Lindsay Griener; Esteban Hernández-Rivera; Anastasia Ivanenko; Juhani Järvikivi; Lea Kawaletz; Anurag Khare; Jun Ren Lee; Charlotte E. Lee; Christina Manouilidou; Marco Marelli; Timur Mashanlo; Ksenija Mišic; Koji Miwa; Pauline Palma; Ingo Plag; Zoya Rezanova; Enkhzaya Riimed; Jay Rueckl; Sascha Schroeder; Irina A. Sekerina; Diego E. Shalom; Natalia Slioussar; Neža Marija Slosar; Vanessa Taler; Kim Thériault; Debra Titone; Odonchimeg Tumee; Ross van de Wetering; Ark Verma; Anna Fiona Weiss; Denise Hsien Wu; Victor Kuperman – Language Learning, 2024
This article presents the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project that offers data on English reading and listening comprehension from 7,338 university-level advanced learners and native speakers of English representing 19 countries. The database also includes estimates of reading rate and seven component skills of English, including vocabulary,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Huensch, Amanda; Nagle, Charlie – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
This report examines the potential impacts of task and proficiency on listener judgments of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness in L2 Spanish. This study extends Huensch and Nagle ["Language Learning," 71, 626-668, (2021)], who explored the partial independence among the global speech dimensions for speech samples taken…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Language Proficiency, Intelligibility
El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam; Masrai, Ahmed; Yahya, Noorchaya – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
The current study aimed to explore undergraduate students use and perceptions of listening comprehension strategies (LCS) in online EMI lectures, and the extent to which LCS use depends on the students' general language proficiency and language exposure. A total of 76 English majors completed a language proficiency test, an LCS inventory and a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Listening Comprehension, Listening Skills, Online Courses
Vanessa Felten – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The digital age has profoundly changed the film industry and how consumers are able to access media. To foster language development, this mixed methods study takes advantage of this technological progress and investigates how an audiovisual media-based curriculum can be designed for and implemented in an intermediate German language course. In…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Audiovisual Instruction
Marie Lallier; Jose Peréz-Navarro; Mikhail Ordin – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2024
Research on the effects on early bilingualism on reading development is scarce. Here, we tackle this question by investigating whether the exposure to dual-language contexts (use of two languages in the same conversational situation) induces a boost in phonological and reading performance through more balanced spatial auditory attentional skills.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Bilingual Students, Spanish
Erin D. Smith; Lori L. Holt; Frederic Dick – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
Multilingual speakers can find speech recognition in everyday environments like restaurants and open-plan offices particularly challenging. In a world where speaking multiple languages is increasingly common, effective clinical and educational interventions will require a better understanding of how factors like multilingual contexts and…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Bilingualism, Acoustics, Cues
Alejandro Cano Villagrasa; Nadia Porcar Gozalbo; Beatriz Valles González; Miguel López-Zamora – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and epilepsy represent a comorbidity that negatively influences the proper development of linguistic competencies, particularly in receptive language, in the pediatric population. This group displays impairments in the auditory comprehension of both simple and complex grammatical structures, significantly limiting…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Epilepsy, Comorbidity, Language Proficiency
