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Avery, Nick; Marsden, Emma – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
Despite extensive theoretical and empirical research, we do not have estimations of the magnitude of sensitivity to grammatical information during L2 online processing. This is largely due to reliance on null hypothesis significance testing (Plonsky, 2015). The current meta-analysis draws on data from one elicitation technique, self-paced reading,…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
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Yousefi, Mohammad Hossein; Biria, Reza – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2018
The purpose of the present meta-analysis is to the investigate the overall effectiveness of L2 vocabulary instruction and to find the moderator variables affecting its effectiveness. By defining a rigorous inclusion and exclusion criteria, a total number of 16 primary studies (N = 1008), 7 published and 9 Ph.D. dissertations, were included. Under…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Gasser, Judith G. – 1984
Since the time of E. B. Huey (1908), there have been clear indicators that oral language as a reflection of a child's linguistic ability has been clearly related to his or her reading achievement or comprehension. P. McKee (1937) and W. S. Gray (1937) both speculated that reading difficulties might parallel language deficiencies. G. Hildreth…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Language Arts, Language Proficiency
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Swaffar, Janet K. – Modern Language Journal, 1988
Considers current research on reading in a second language from five points of view: (1) the reader's role in light of new models of language and textual meaning; (2) revised definitions of textual meaning and reader processing; (3) reader processing of schemata; (4) relationship between second-language competency and reader strategies; and (5)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Eye Fixations, Language Proficiency, Literature Reviews
Adunyarittigun, Dumrong – 1996
This paper examines variables such as linguistic ability in the target language, schemata, and psychological factors affecting the English language reading success or failure of a 31-year-old Thai graduate student in the information system program at a U.S. university. The subject's self-assessment of reading, speaking, and listening in Thai was…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
Williams, James D.; Snipper, Grace Capizzi – 1990
The mechanisms and issues in literacy are identified and analyzed as they relate to bilingualism. A wide range of current theory and research is synthesized, and concrete suggestions are made concerning the development of literacy skills in bilingual classrooms. The book is divided into nine chapters. The first chapter discusses varying…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Intelligence