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Anna C-S Chang – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2024
This study investigated the effects of assisted oral reading on EFL learners' oral reading rates and took into account repetition times, passage features (length and type), and language proficiency. Forty-nine students from a university of technology took part in a 27-week oral reading program. Teaching assistants were assigned to assist…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Oral Reading, Repetition, Language Proficiency
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Li, Xiaomeng; Miller, Ryan T.; Zhang, Jing; Ke, Sihui – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
This study aimed to validate the Simple View of Reading (SVR) in L2 English readers with alphabetic and morphosyllabic L1 writing system backgrounds. Forty-five L2 English learners enrolled in American university bridge programs completed a set of tasks that measured real word decoding efficiency, pseudoword decoding efficiency, linguistic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, College Students, Transitional Programs
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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
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Liu, Yang; Zhang, Jie; Li, Hong – Language Teaching Research, 2023
The ability to decode new words of varying degrees of orthographic-phonological mapping is an important word recognition skill across languages. Chinese characters represent three types of phonetic regularity: regular, semi-regular, and irregular depending on the degree of reliability of the pronunciation information provided by the phonetic…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Reading Processes, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
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Klassen, Kimberly – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2021
This study investigated how well second language (L2) readers of English use context to identify proper names as such. It represents a first step in exploring a widely held assumption that L2 readers of English can easily identify proper names by their form and function. The study isolates the issue of function to investigate whether context alone…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Japanese, Native Language
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Adunyarittigun, Dumrong – rEFLections, 2021
This research investigated what reading strategies Thai college EFL students who were identified as nonproficient readers are aware of and what reading strategies they use. Data were gathered from a questionnaire, think-aloud and interviews. The analysis identified 3 broad categories of 16 reading strategies employed by the nonproficient readers:…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Syntax, Protocol Analysis
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Wyatt, Mark; Midraj, Jessica; Ayish, Nader; Bradley, Curtis; Balfaqeeh, Muna – Reading Psychology, 2021
There is a worldwide concern about science and engineering undergraduate students, particularly those who are English language learners, struggling with their entry-level content courses. From a teacher cognition perspective and drawing on semi-structured interviews with chemistry, mathematics and physics teachers at a university in the Middle…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Science Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Chemistry
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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)
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Soledad Pampillo; Sandra Lauría – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
This study examines the difficulty shown by Spanish-speaking university students in decoding pre-modified noun phrases (NPs) in English. NPs carry a heavy lexical and conceptual load and foreign language (L2) readers may be challenged by first language (L1) crosslinguistic influence triggered by cognate NPs. Therefore, this study also attempts to…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tavarez DaCosta, Pedro; Herrera Gutierrez, Yerni – Online Submission, 2020
Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago (UTESA) is a university considered as one of the highest ranking universities in the Dominican Republic, it is one of the few to be recognized by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology as an autonomous university for its constant research and updating. This university offers to college students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Acosta, Karen – Dimension, 2019
This study identified the reading comprehension strategies that English-speaking college students enrolled in beginner, intermediate, and advanced Spanish language classes at a major Midwestern university in the United States used to comprehend a text in their second language. The findings suggest that readers tended to use the same comprehension…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Spanish, Native Language
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Two groups of freshman students, enrolled in a Vocabulary I and Reading I courses, participated in the study. Before instruction, both groups took a recognition (vocabulary) and a production (oral reading) pre-test. Comparisons of the pre-test scores showed no significant differences between the experimental and control group in decoding skills…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Gorsuch, Greta; Taguchi, Etsuo; Umehara, Hiroaki – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2015
A perennial challenge to second language educators and learners is getting sufficient input in settings where the L2 is not widely used, in this case beginning-level American university students learning Japanese. Reading is a significant means of getting L2 input, with recent calls for attention to reading and authentic texts as curriculum…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension
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Ijalba, Elizabeth; Obler, Loraine K. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2015
The Spanish writing system has consistent grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences (GPC), rendering it more transparent than English. We compared first-language (L1) orthographic transparency on how monolingual English- and Spanish-readers learned a novel writing system with a 1:1 (LT) and a 1:2 (LO) GPC. Our dependent variables were learning time,…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Spanish
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Huh, Seonmin – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2016
This article explores the general patterns of interactions between the teacher and students during the different instructional steps when the teacher attempted to incorporate both conventional skill-based reading and critical literacy in an English as a foreign language (EFL) literacy class in a Korean university. There has been a paucity of EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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