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Download full textDurongbhandhu, Nunpaporn; Suwanasilp, Danuchawat – English Language Teaching, 2021
Vocabulary is an essential factor in English language learning. The competency in vocabulary acquisition enables learners to develop their language skills, especially, reading skill. Presently, with the advent of technology, teaching media with visual aid is used worldwide for media-assisted language learning. The study aimed to develop, implement…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Liu, Jiren; Zhang, Jianying – English Language Teaching, 2018
Extensive reading has been continuously studied as a promising instructional method for improving students' language proficiency, including reading proficiency, vocabulary acquisition, and grammar awareness. The present study is a meta-analysis, which synthesized the data of 21 empirical studies (N = 1268). It was designed to explore whether…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Meta Analysis, Reading Programs, Language Proficiency
Durán Bautista, Diana Carolina; Rendón Marulanda, Mario Alberto – English Language Teaching, 2018
This action research study focuses on measuring the impact of a Free Voluntary Reading Program on students' active vocabulary use and self-direction in language learning in two different programs of English as a foreign language. The impetus for this research came from close observation and a needs analysis that confirmed students' reluctant…
Descriptors: Action Research, Vocabulary Development, Positive Attitudes, Second Language Learning
Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah; Mai, Magdaline Mbong – English Language Teaching, 2016
This paper reports on a needs analysis that sought to explore students' reading challenges as an initial step in designing an appropriate reading intervention programme for first-year Sociology students. The aim of the paper is to suggest conditions for the production of an effective reading intervention programme by determining the needs of the…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Intervention, Affective Behavior, Reading Programs
Alzu'bi, Mohammad Akram – English Language Teaching, 2014
This study aimed at investigating the impact of extensive reading on improving reading proficiency. The study tried to find the effect of ER on EFL student's reading, vocabulary and grammar. The researcher designed two instruments; a program based on the extensive reading strategy and general test. Forty-one university students who study English…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Language Proficiency
Petchprasert, Anongnad – English Language Teaching, 2014
This study investigated parents' backgrounds and their beliefs about English language learning, and compared the receptive English vocabulary development of three to six year-old-Thai children before and after participating in a parent-child reading program with the dialogic reading (DR) method. Fifty-four single parents of 54 children voluntarily…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Background, Parent Attitudes, English (Second Language)
Wan-a-rom, Udorn – English Language Teaching, 2012
The study was aimed to examine how EFL learners of English reacted to graded readers in terms of reading strategy use, comprehension, speed, and attitude as well as motivation when control for ability level was determined. Eighty Thai high school students placed into their own reading level of graded readers by the scores gained from the graded…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
