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Download full textAlAdwani, Amel; AlFadley, Anam; AlGasab, Maha; Alnwaiem, Ahmad F. – English Language Teaching, 2022
Metacognitive reading strategies play an essential role in improving reading comprehension. This study explores the effects of English metacognitive reading strategies and reading comprehension in Kuwaiti primary school students as foreign language learners; this experimental study tries to find a relationship between students' metacognitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Lin, Lu-Chun – English Language Teaching, 2014
This study used a quasi-experimental design to determine the effects of teachers' story read-aloud on EFL elementary school students' word learning outcomes. It specifically examined whether the word learning was enhanced by teachers' repeated story read-aloud and word-meaning explanations and further determined whether the learning outcomes were…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Reading Aloud to Others, Oral Reading, Elementary School Teachers
Al Khaiyali, Al Tiyb S. – English Language Teaching, 2014
Reading comprehension instruction has been recognized as a key factor in developing any reading and literacy program. Therefore, many attempts were devoted to improve explicit comprehension strategy instruction at different school levels and fields including EFL and ESL. Despite these efforts, explicit comprehension instruction is still drought…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Picture Books, Childrens Literature
Jing, Jinxiu – English Language Teaching, 2013
The theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI theory), put forward by Gardner in 1983, claims that each person possesses different combinations of nine intelligences. In education, it advocates that teachers should address students' personal uniqueness and provide a wide range of intelligence-oriented activities and experiences to facilitate learning,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Elementary Education, Multiple Intelligences
Dwaik, Raghad; Shehadeh, Adnan – English Language Teaching, 2015
The starting age of foreign language learning has been a controversial issue since the second half of the 20th century. Despite this long time, definite answers have not been found regarding the different aspects of the age issue, i.e., its influence on rate, route and ultimate attainment. Many researchers have explored the influence of age on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Sidhu, Gurnam Kaur; Fook, Chan Yuen; Kaur, Sarjit – English Language Teaching, 2010
Literature is an expression of life through the medium of language and in the ESL classroom it is often seen as an authentic means of learning the target language. A literature-enriched curriculum not only helps learners improve their reading and writing skills but more importantly helps them internalise grammar and vocabulary. The many benefits…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Lin, Ching-Ying; Hsu, Wei Shu – English Language Teaching, 2013
The purpose of the study was to compare the effectiveness of hierarchy vocabulary exercises and copying vocabulary exercises on EFL students' vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension. Two specific factors were probed: (a) vocabulary gains and retention from different exercises; (b) reading comprehension performance through different…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
