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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)
Holster, Trevor A.; Lake, J. W.; Pellowe, William R. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2017
This study used many-faceted Rasch measurement to investigate the difficulty of graded readers using a 3-item survey. Book difficulty was compared with Kyoto Level, Yomiyasusa Level, Lexile Level, book length, mean sentence length, and mean word frequency. Word frequency and Kyoto Level were found to be ineffective in predicting students'…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Difficulty Level, Books, Surveys
Direct linkCheetham, 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
