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Reconceptualizing the Role of Oral Language Predictors in Korean EFL Learners' Reading Comprehension
Download full textJeeyoung Park; Yusun Kang – English Teaching, 2025
Oral language comprehension (OLC) and vocabulary depth are widely recognized as key predictors of reading comprehension. However, research has either provided a limited representation of OLC or failed to acknowledge the distinctive predictive nature of vocabulary depth. This study investigates the combined contributions of OLC, conceptualized as a…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Zahra Neshatian; Mohammad Saber Khaghaninejad – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This study scrutinized the effects of words' superiority, regularity, frequency and length on the intermediate and advanced EFL learner's visual word recognition. Moreover, it attempted to check whether each of these parameters could be statistically a significant predictor on recognition tasks. Accordingly, 118 intermediate and 127 advanced adult…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Word Recognition
Direct linkNoam Siegelman; Irina Elgort; Marc Brysbaert; Niket Agrawal; Simona Amenta; Jasmina Arsenijevic Mijalkovic; Christine S. Chang; Daria Chernova; Fabienne Chetail; A. J. Benjamin Clarke; Alain Content; Davide Crepaldi; Nastag Davaabold; Shurentsetseg Delgersuren; Avital Deutsch; Veronika Dibrova; Denis Drieghe; Dušica Filipovic Ðurdevic; Brittany Finch; Ram Frost; Carolina A. Gattei; Esther Geva; Aline Godfroid; Lindsay Griener; Esteban Hernández-Rivera; Anastasia Ivanenko; Juhani Järvikivi; Lea Kawaletz; Anurag Khare; Jun Ren Lee; Charlotte E. Lee; Christina Manouilidou; Marco Marelli; Timur Mashanlo; Ksenija Mišic; Koji Miwa; Pauline Palma; Ingo Plag; Zoya Rezanova; Enkhzaya Riimed; Jay Rueckl; Sascha Schroeder; Irina A. Sekerina; Diego E. Shalom; Natalia Slioussar; Neža Marija Slosar; Vanessa Taler; Kim Thériault; Debra Titone; Odonchimeg Tumee; Ross van de Wetering; Ark Verma; Anna Fiona Weiss; Denise Hsien Wu; Victor Kuperman – Language Learning, 2024
This article presents the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project that offers data on English reading and listening comprehension from 7,338 university-level advanced learners and native speakers of English representing 19 countries. The database also includes estimates of reading rate and seven component skills of English, including vocabulary,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Lai, Hongling; Wang, Dianjian; Ou, Xiancai – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This empirical study investigates the effects of different caption modes on the content and vocabulary comprehension by Chinese English learners with different levels of English proficiency. The results show that the full captioned group performed better on content comprehension than the keyword group, while no significant difference was found on…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Karami, Hossein; Kouhpaee Nejad, Mohammadhossein; Nourzadeh, Saeed; Ahmadi Shirazi, Masoumeh – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
This study was set to cross-validate a bilingual Persian-English version of the Vocabulary Size Test (VST) against the monolingual English version and compare Iranian EFL learners' performance on the two versions. Various bilingual versions of the VST have been developed based on the assumption that bilingual versions are not affected by the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Indo European Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Hrdlicková, Zuzana – Advanced Education, 2021
It is evident from the PISA 2018 results that a trend in mean performance in reading has been declining in the Slovak Republic. The KEGA Project "Idioms in Business Communication", run at the Department of English Language, aims at improving reading literacy, widening formal and informal vocabulary and facilitating business…
Descriptors: Business English, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Elfiondri; Kasim, Usman; Mustafa, Faisal; Putra, Tomi Mandala – TESOL International Journal, 2020
Studies have shown that reading comprehension is the most difficult section of the Paper-Based Test (PBT) TOEFL. Therefore, this research aimed to identify which sub-skill in reading comprehension poses the greatest challenges for the students and how this sub-skill correlates to other reading comprehension sub-skills. To achieve this purpose,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
Kamali, Mojtaba; Behjat, Fatemeh; Bagheri, Mohammad Sadegh – Cogent Education, 2020
The current study investigated the influence of oral reproduction and summary writing vocabulary tasks on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' learning and retention of new foreign language (L2) words. To this end, 66 advanced EFL learners were randomly selected and assigned to two experimental and one control conditions. The participants…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ruiz, Simón; Rebuschat, Patrick; Meurers, Detmar – Language Teaching Research, 2021
The extent to which learners benefit from instruction may be largely dependent on their individual abilities. However, there is relatively little work on the interaction between instructional effectiveness in second language learning and learner individual factors. In this study, we investigated the relationship between instruction, individual…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Klauda, Susan Lutz; Guthrie, John T. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
This longitudinal study examined the development of reading motivation, engagement, and achievement in early adolescence by comparing interrelations of these variables in struggling and advanced readers. Participants were 183 pairs of seventh grade students matched in gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and school attended. They completed…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Achievement, Learner Engagement, Early Adolescents
Bakhshalinezhad, Ladan; Nikou, Farahnaz Reymani; Bonyadi, Alireza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This study explored the reading strategies used by advanced and intermediate Persian EFL learners in both English and Persian reading comprehension texts. Based on the aims of the study reading comprehension texts were administered to the learners and their reading strategies in both English and Persian reading comprehension texts were examined…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Protocol Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Indo European Languages
Tabari, Mahmoud Abdi – TESL-EJ, 2017
Much research has investigated the role of planning time in second language writing; however, the results show that there are inconsistent findings about the effects of planning time conditions on the complexity of the EFL learners' textual output. The current study attempted to consider the differential effects of planning time conditions in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Persuasive Discourse
Peer reviewedHoriba, Yukie – Modern Language Journal, 1990
Comparison of the reading strategies and resulting reading comprehension and recall of native and advanced non-native adult speakers of Japanese found that reading strategy significantly affected comprehension and recall, with non-native readers with limited language command paying more attention to vocabulary and grammar than native readers, who…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Japanese
