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Oakhill, Jane; Cain, Kate; Nesi, Barbara – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2016
This article reports a study in which good and poor comprehenders (in 2 age groups: 8- and 10-year-olds) read short passages containing phrases that could be interpreted as idiomatic or not, depending on the context. Familiarity was manipulated by including real (English) idioms and novel (translations of Italian) idioms. Reading times for the…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Reading Comprehension, Children, Age Differences
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Mokhtari, Elahe; Talebinezhad, Mohammed Reza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The aim of this research was to probed whether using supplementary readings (short stories containing idioms) increase conceptual fluency of L2 learners. In line with the goal of the study, first, the researcher selected a sample of 30 female lower-intermediate L2 learners from Sadr Private Language Centre in Isfahan. She selected them based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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DeLancey, Robert W. – 1962
Designed to determine to what degree the reader's awareness of recognition of certain structural aspects of written English is a factor in reading comprehension, this measure defines four word classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) in syntactical or formal terms rather than in semantic terms. Each item in the test consists of two sentences:…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Language Arts