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Direct linkChou, Mu-Hsuan – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
Purpose: Graded readers can help English language learners to improve their reading ability. Literary texts with simplified language often differ from expository texts for teaching EFL learners. Although reading strategies have been used to facilitate comprehension, how students use strategies to process literary texts is underexplored. The…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Reading Ability, Reading Instruction
Download full textThompson, Andrew; Tsuji, Saori – Research-publishing.net, 2020
The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate (1) students' interest in reading English books, (2) students' interest in using an online Virtual Library (VL), and (3) students' experiences and preferences relating to the implementation of an online VL within an Academic English Program (AEP). First-year students (N=136) from a public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Cheetham, Catherine; Harper, Alan; Elliott, Melody; Ito, Mika – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2016
This paper describes a pilot study conducted with English as a foreign language (EFL) students at a private university in Japan who used graded readers and the MReader website in class or independently to enhance their English reading skills. Each semester students who read 100,000 words with MReader quizzes passed enter into the "MReader…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Basal Reading
Beglar, David; Hunt, Alan – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2014
This study investigated the effects of (a) the amount of pleasure reading completed, (b) the type of texts read (i.e., simplified or unsimplified books), and (c) the level of simplified texts read by 14 Japanese university students who made the largest reading rate gains over one academic year. The findings indicated that the participants who made…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Recreational Reading, Readability, Difficulty Level
