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Diana Angélica Parra Pérez; Jennyfer Paola Camargo Cely; María Catalina Caro Torres; Miguel Eduardo Uribe Moreno – Journal of Educators Online, 2025
This paper is a quantitative study about learners' engagement and self-efficacy within a Virtual Reality (VR) learning environment while studying vocabulary in English in a classroom implementing a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach. VR was used as a tool for students to learn and better understand specific concepts studied…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Learner Engagement, Self Efficacy, Content and Language Integrated Learning
Dang, Thi Ngoc Yen; Lu, Cailing; Webb, Stuart – Language Learning, 2022
In this quasi-experimental study, 165 learners of English for academic purposes at a university in China were randomly assigned to five experimental groups and a control group. Each experimental group encountered 19 target collocations in the same academic lecture in one of the following input modes: (a) reading, (b) listening, (c) reading while…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, College Students, Second Language Learning, English for Academic Purposes
Sultan Altalhab; Fatma F. S. Said – ELT Journal, 2024
This qualitative study sets out to understand the beliefs, functions, and practices of using L1 among EFL learners while they learned new L2 vocabulary. Forty-two Saudi male university students were randomly assigned to 21 pairs and asked to complete three reading comprehension tasks. All pair interactions were audio-recorded. Afterward,…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Males
Abu Saleh Mohammad Rafi; Anne-Marie Morgan – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
This study investigated the impact of translanguaging pedagogy on the reading comprehension process of first-year students studying at an English department of a Bangladeshi public university. Through a two-pronged ethnographic research design, data were collected through classroom observation, pedagogical intervention, a semi-structured interview…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Marian Patricia Bea U. Francisco; Portia P. Padilla – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
The research studied the perception of Deaf college students on the use of a multimodal approach in teaching literacy to them. The research used a case study design to present five Deaf college students who underwent multimodal intervention sessions. The study primarily used qualitative data, supported by quantitative data from instrument scores.…
Descriptors: Deafness, College Students, Learning Modalities, Literature
Khampool, Waraporn; Chumworatayee, Tipamas – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This study examined the effects of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) instruction on the reading comprehension of Thai university students majoring in Electrical Power Engineering. The participants were 15 more proficient and 15 less proficient learners studying in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course. The scores from the pre-and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Foreign Countries
Uçak, Gamze; Kartal, Günizi – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2023
This study explored the effects of reading strategy training delivered online through an experimental scaffolding tool in comparison to similar training delivered by a teacher, and a control condition. The instructional design of the tool followed scaffolding design guidelines, reciprocal teaching model, and principles of multimedia design. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Nakano, Teiko – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2023
For elementary learners of Japanese, one of the main difficulties in reading is to distinguish words written in kana. This paper reports on a survey of elementary level learners with two different levels of proficiency to investigate the effectiveness of Japanese graded readers with parts of speech color-coded to distinguish nouns, verbs,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Incidental Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Shynta Amalia; Muhammad Iqbal Ramdhani; Syafryadin; Eka Apriani; Saad Boulahnane – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
Through the application of the experimental research method and the factorial design, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the authoring tools SoftChalk medium and Hot Potatoes medium in the learning management system (LMS), as well as the types of readers (Avid, Passive, and Reluctant), on the reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Learning Management Systems, Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Reading Improvement
Ferrari, Federica; Picciuolo, Mariangela; Bigi, Daniele – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
Purpose: This paper is a proposal for improving ESL text comprehension by merging a multimodal perspective on language (Kress et al. [2005]. "Urban Classrooms, Subject English: Multimodal Perspectives on Teaching and Learning." London: Routledge Falmer.) with an integrated psychological (or 'metacognitive') approach to language learning…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Multimedia Instruction
Leonie Disch; Angela Fessl; Simone Franza; Joachim Kimmerle; Viktoria Pammer-Schindler – Discover Education, 2025
Reading and understanding scientific texts is useful and necessary in many informal collaboration settings, including research or innovation collaborations, or when discussing public science in lay peer groups. In this work, we investigate whether an interactive predefined concept map that builds up gradually while reading a scientific research…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Graphs, Concept Mapping, Cooperative Learning
Chen, Huilin; Cai, Yuyang; de la Torre, Jimmy – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
This study uses a cognitive diagnosis model (CDM) approach to investigate the associations among specific L2 reading subskills. Participants include 1,203 Year-4 English major college students randomly selected from the nationwide test takers of Band 8 of Test for English Majors (TEM8), a large-scale English proficiency test for senior English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Majors (Students)
Mark Feng Teng – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This study investigates the effects of three word-focused exercise conditions on vocabulary learning. The exercises were developed based on the involvement load hypothesis. This study also explores how individual differences (e.g. second-language English proficiency level and working memory) affect vocabulary learning outcomes. A total of 180…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Short Term Memory, Learning Activities
Anggraini, Merliyani Putri; Cahyono, Bambang Yudi; Anugerahwati, Mirjam; Ivone, Francisca Maria – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
The current research aimed to discover the most frequently used reading strategies of EFL university students across their reading proficiency and personality types and examine the interaction between the predictive factors in using the strategies when reading English online texts. Data were collected using a questionnaire on reading strategies…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Personality Traits, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Carmen Muñoz; Anastasia Pattemore; Daniela Avello – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Repeated viewing of the same video is a common strategy among autonomous language learners as well as a much used pedagogical strategy among foreign language (FL) teachers. Learners may watch the same video more than once, to increase global comprehension of the target language or to focus their attention on linguistic aspects, such as new…
Descriptors: Captions, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction