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Download full textMin Gui; Xiaokan Chen; Xiangli Cheng – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
This study explored the contribution of second language (L2) discipline-specific vocabulary to Chinese chemistry major undergraduates' reading of textbooks. Participants included 82 second-year undergraduates majoring in chemistry. Their discipline-specific vocabulary knowledge and chemistry textbook reading ability were measured. Their L2…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Zhang, Zhiying; Webb, Stuart – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2019
This study investigated the effects of reading bilingual books on vocabulary learning. Eighty-two Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners read different versions of the same text: English-only text, English text with target words glossed, English text followed by the Chinese text, and Chinese text followed by the English text. A…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Books, Reading Materials, Vocabulary Development
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This study examined the predictive role of several learner factors in second language (L2) incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading: L2 proficiency, motivation, anxiety, and mastery of strategies. Participants were 129 English learners in a comprehensive university in China. Participants read two English texts and were given an…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Incidental Learning, Foreign Countries
Guo, Ying; Roehrig, Alysia D. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2011
We examined the roles of metacognitive awareness of reading strategies, syntactic awareness in English, and English vocabulary knowledge in the English reading comprehension of Chinese-speaking university students (n = 278). Results suggested a two-factor model of a General Reading Knowledge factor (metacognitive awareness employed during the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading, Structural Equation Models, Second Languages
