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Lishan Zhang; Lili Liu; Shuwen Wang; Min Xu; Sixv Zhang; Yun Tang – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: Collaborative reading can facilitate students' understanding of complex learning materials. High-quality annotations provided by peer learners are essential for successful collaborative reading. However, it remains to be understood how annotation quality affects reading comprehension. Objectives: A simulated collaborative reading…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Documentation, Reading Processes, Eye Movements
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
Willy A. Renandya; Nguyen Thi Thuy Minh; George M. Jacobs – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
The aim of this article is to assist TESOL learners in effectively delving into professional literature for both their coursework and future teaching endeavors. It begins by addressing common challenges in critical reading faced by TESOL students, such as complex and technical language, varied writing styles and a lack of familiarity with TESOL…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Preservice Teachers, Critical Reading
Lee, Yuan-Hsuan; Hong, Huang-Yao – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This study investigated multimodal multiple text comprehension (MMTC) among forty-eight Taiwanese university students, considering their cognitive and affective characteristics. A randomized trial with pre- and post-tests design was applied. The experiment group received a browser-embedded note-taking device along with epistemic prompting. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Reading Comprehension, Individual Differences
Ari, Omer; Calandra, Brendan – College Teaching, 2022
College students enrolled in a reading support course were asked to (a) read a short text, (b) listen to a second text, and (c) read + listen to a third text and answer multiple-choice comprehension questions about each text. Each condition employed a self-study format allowing for constant availability of text input and extra time to revisit text…
Descriptors: College Students, Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
Guo, Lin – Reading Psychology, 2023
This study investigated how and how often to present prompts to enhance students' source evaluation and multiple-text comprehension. Participants were 72 undergraduates who read a set of digital texts on a controversial topic of smartphone use and mental health, wrote a justification statement for their selection of trustworthy texts, and answered…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Information Sources, Evaluation Methods, Reading Comprehension
Karabiyik, Ceyhun; Arslan, Sezen; Ulutas, Nurdan Kavakli – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
The current study investigated L2-based assumptions of the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning and Cognitive Load Theory for the multimedia, modality, and redundancy principles. In this non-equivalent groups quasi-experimental design study, four groups of Turkish-speaking teacher trainees of the English language received a 12-minute non-paced…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Michael A. Essex – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quasi-experimental, mixed-methods study was to address the gap in understanding regarding second language (L2) comprehension of stories by using a taxonomical approach based on Anderson and Krathwohl's (2001) revised taxonomy that includes multiple levels of cognitive processing to provide insight into L2 learners' depth of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Story Reading, Psychological Patterns
Ali Akbar Boori; Mohammad Ghazanfari; Behzad Ghonsooly; Purya Baghaei – International Journal of Language Testing, 2024
The purpose of this study was to compare the functioning of five restrictive CDMs, including DINA, DINO, A-CDM, LLM, and RRUM, against the G-DINA model to identify the best-fitting CDM which can better explain the interaction underlying the attributes of the reading comprehension section of an Iranian high-stakes language proficiency test. To this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Reading Comprehension, Language Tests
Margaret Osgood Opatz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to determine the extent to which preservice teachers could identify various academic language markers (general academic and discipline-specific vocabulary, passive voice, nominalization, logical connections, and referents--pronouns and synonyms) in complex texts and describe the language that make texts…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Academic Language, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes
Chili Li; Xue Wang; Long Qian – SAGE Open, 2025
The effectiveness of English Language Teaching (ELT) materials significantly influences the learning outcomes of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners, positioning these resources as cardinal in the acquisition process. Despite this widely acknowledged significance, there remains a notable gap in research concerning the evaluation of key…
Descriptors: Syntax, Difficulty Level, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Rouet, Jean-François; Saux, Gaston; Ros, Christine; Stadtler, Marc; Vibert, Nicolas; Britt, M. Anne – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
Text comprehension involves the ability to understand how texts relate to the situation they describe and to each other (i.e., a Document model). Research into Document models has emphasized the role of information sources in structuring readers' mental models of situations. The present article reviews research on source comprehension and examines…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Recognition (Psychology), Reliability
Jáñez, Alvaro; Rosales, Javier; Rouet, Jean-François – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2021
The aim of this study was to examine the effects of structure and navigation aids on students' learning from hypertexts. Participants were 48 undergraduate students. Group 1 (N = 24) read 2 hypertexts (one network, one hierarchical) with high navigation support (a graphical overview, a coherent links list, and use of different colours for visited…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Hypermedia, Text Structure, Navigation (Information Systems)
Bronson Hui – Modern Language Journal, 2024
Audiobooks allow language learners to read and listen to the same text simultaneously; yet the effects of this bimodal input (written and spoken) on learners' comprehension have been inconsistent, suggesting that the conditions under which audiobooks can help comprehension are not well understood. As such, I explored silent reading speed and text…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Nishihara, Takayuki – Cogent Education, 2022
Researchers have recommended that English-as-foreign-language (EFL) classrooms should use lexically easy short poems. However, no studies have examined EFL learners' actual reading processes for these poetry texts, the insights of which are vital for corroborating future poetry-teaching methods. Hence, this study investigates how…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Poetry, Reading Processes