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Direct linkNobuhiro Kamiya – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study examined the effects of watching gestures and lip movement on second language (English) listening comprehension. The participants were 30 high and 22 low proficient learners of English. There were six listening tasks combining two variables: modality and difficulty. The modality consisted of three types of assessments: Body (the upper…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Video Technology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Reese Butterfuss; Kathryn S. McCarthy; Ellen Orcutt; Panayiota Kendeou; Danielle S. McNamara – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Readers often struggle to identify the main ideas in expository texts. Existing research and instruction provide some guidance on how to encourage readers to identify main ideas. However, there is substantial variability in how main ideas are operationalized and how readers are prompted to identify main ideas. This variability hinders…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Best Practices
Download full textReese Butterfuss; Kathryn S. McCarthy; Ellen Orcutt; Panayiota Kendeou; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Readers often struggle to identify the main ideas in expository texts. Existing research and instruction provide some guidance on how to encourage readers to identify main ideas. However, there is substantial variability in how main ideas are operationalized and how readers are prompted to identify main ideas. This variability hinders…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Best Practices
Wang, Zuowei; O'Reilly, Tenaha; Sabatini, John; McCarthy, Kathryn S.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
We compared high school students' performance in a traditional comprehension assessment requiring them to identify key information and draw inferences from single texts, and a scenario-based assessment (SBA) requiring them to integrate, evaluate and apply information across multiple sources. Both assessments focused on a non-academic topic.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, High School Students, Inferences, Reading Tests
Garraffa, Maria; Smart, Francesca; Obregón, Mateo – Language Learning and Development, 2021
The present study investigated the effect of classroom-based syntactic training on children's abilities to produce passive sentences. Thirty-three monolingual English children (mean age 5;2), were involved in passive-voice training based on storytelling sessions within a priming design. The training was delivered in a classroom setting, with two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Story Telling, English, Monolingualism
Ke, Sihui – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
This research compared the contributions of lexical inferencing, decoding, and listening comprehension to reading comprehension in Chinese-speaking learners of English as a second language (ESL) enrolled in university bridging programs in the U.S. and Chinese-speaking university learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in mainland China.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Native Language, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
