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Victoria Rodrigo – Dimensions, 2024
This study reviews the effect of comprehension and perceived text difficulty in promoting reading enjoyment and interest to read more among novice learners practicing extensive and pleasure reading. Sixty-seven college students in their first semester of Spanish were asked to read a children-like story picture book in Spanish and were then given…
Descriptors: Recreational Reading, Reading Comprehension, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Art Tsang; Daniel Fung – Curriculum Journal, 2024
Reading is a core element in language education. Despite extensive research in second/foreign language (L2/FL) reading, relatively little is known about the differences between two common practices: Compulsory reading (i.e. reading assigned by teachers) and voluntary reading (i.e. self-initiated reading). This article reports two related…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Correlation, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
Lisa M. Domke – Reading Teacher, 2024
Because dual-language books (DLBs) print the entire text in two languages nearby on the page, they have great potential for supporting children's biliteracy development by providing contexts to compare/contrast languages. However, little is known about how children read DLBs independently and how they may/may not use such characteristics to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Yuya Arai; Kotaro Takizawa – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
Despite the preponderance of research on extensive reading (ER), the research field still suffers from a lack of common understanding of what ER is and how it should be implemented. From the perspective of Day and Bamford's (2002) seminal ten principles for teaching ER, the present methodological synthesis aimed to systematically review and…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Educational Principles
Brian Strong – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2024
While previous research has provided insights into vocabulary learning through extensive reading, the differential effects of word frequency and word class on active form and passive meaning word recognition remain less understood. By evaluating learners' post-test performance in active form recognition and passive meaning recognition, this study…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Word Frequency