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The Relationship between Grammatical Understanding and Writing Skills in Finnish Secondary L1 Education
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Marjokorpi, Jenni – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Previous studies have indicated that students' writing skills benefit from contextualized L1 grammar teaching, in which language structures are observed and analyzed in authentic texts and as embedded into teaching of reading and writing. The contextualized approach is also promoted by the current Finnish curriculum for basic education. This study…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing Skills, Finno Ugric Languages, Secondary School Students
The Role of First-Language Listening Comprehension in Second-Language Reading Comprehension
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Edele, Aileen; Stanat, Petra – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Although the simple view of reading and other theories suggest that listening comprehension is an important determinant of reading comprehension, previous research on linguistic transfer has mainly focused on the role of first language (L1) decoding skills in second language (L2) reading. The present study tested the assumption that listening…
Descriptors: Native Language, Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Turkish
Classroom Composition and Language Minority Students' Motivation in Language Lessons
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Rjosk, Camilla; Richter, Dirk; Hochweber, Jan; Lüdtke, Oliver; Stanat, Petra – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
In this study, we investigated effects of the proportion of language minority students in classrooms on the development of students' intrinsic motivation in language lessons and the mediating role of instructional climate (e.g., teacher support, focus on student interests). In addition, we explored the interaction between the proportion of…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries, Student Interests
English as a Foreign Language Spelling Development: A Longitudinal Study
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Kahn-Horwitz, Janina; Sparks, Richard L.; Goldstein, Zahava – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
English as a foreign language (EFL) spelling was examined longitudinally three times (4th, 9th, 12th grades) during 9 years of EFL study among Hebrew first language (L1) students. The study examined the impact of L1 literacy variables including phonemic awareness, word attack, and spelling on EFL spelling and the relationship between EFL literacy…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonemic Awareness, Word Recognition, Grade 12
Cross-Language Transfer of Reading Ability: Evidence from Taiwanese Ninth-Grade Adolescents
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Chuang, Hui-Kai; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Dixon, L. Quentin – Journal of Literacy Research, 2012
How proficiency in reading the first language (L1) influences proficiency in reading in the second language (L2) was explored in this study. Reading scores in Mandarin Chinese (L1) and in English (L2) for 30,000 Taiwanese ninth-grade students were randomly selected from all who took the national Basic Competency Test during a 6-year period in…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Statistical Significance, Foreign Countries, Reading Ability
Do L1 Reading Achievement and L1 Print Exposure Contribute to the Prediction of L2 Proficiency?
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Sparks, Richard L.; Patton, Jon; Ganschow, Leonore; Humbach, Nancy – Language Learning, 2012
The study examined whether individual differences in high school first language (L1) reading achievement and print exposure would account for unique variance in second language (L2) written (word decoding, spelling, writing, reading comprehension) and oral (listening/speaking) proficiency after adjusting for the effects of early L1 literacy and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Speech Communication, Spelling