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Yuxin Hao; Chenxi Wu; Xun Duan – SAGE Open, 2024
This study examined how Chinese native speakers (NSs) and second language (L2) learners process compound words. The findings showed that they used the hybrid model of coexistence for whole word and morphemes; and were influenced by word frequency, semantic transparency, and word structure. The results revealed that two groups of participants used…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chi Duc Nguyen – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
Research shows that meaning-focused reading offers opportunities for incidental grammar acquisition. However, the number of such studies remains limited and none have examined the role of both in-text encounters with grammar structures and reading comprehension in this learning. The present study filled these gaps. Employing a between-group,…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Grammar, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
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Serrano, Raquel; Huang, Hsiao-yun – Language Awareness, 2023
The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of different schedules of repeated reading practice on intentional vocabulary learning, and constitutes a partial replication and extension of the authors' previous study on incidental vocabulary learning. Two groups of Taiwanese EFL learners (n = 72) engaged in five repeated reading sessions; one…
Descriptors: Intentional Learning, Incidental Learning, Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning
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Ken Fujita; Mitsuo Ishida – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2024
Readers should construct a coherent discourse during reading comprehension. The ability to build coherence has been examined using coherence and cohesion judgment tasks. Although eye-tracking studies have been conducted on building coherence or processing cohesion among native language users, few such studies have been conducted with second…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Radif Khotamir Rusli; Abraham Yazdi Martin; Zahra Khusnul Lathifah; Nova Monaya; Mukarama Yaksi – International Journal of Language Education, 2024
This study investigates the impact of narrative and informative texts on Arabic reading comprehension in the context of Islamic education. Arabic proficiency is crucial for understanding Islamic teachings, yet the differential effects of narrative and informative texts on comprehension have not been extensively explored. While narrative texts…
Descriptors: Arabic, Islam, Language Processing, Scores
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Liu, Yang; Zhang, Jie; Li, Hong – Language Teaching Research, 2023
The ability to decode new words of varying degrees of orthographic-phonological mapping is an important word recognition skill across languages. Chinese characters represent three types of phonetic regularity: regular, semi-regular, and irregular depending on the degree of reliability of the pronunciation information provided by the phonetic…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Reading Processes, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
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Jeong, Hyeyun; Kim, Hojung – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
This study examines the learning patterns of intermediate and advanced Korean learners in the acquisition of causative expressions according to their proficiency and the causative sentence type. We measured their grammatical knowledge using three types of grammaticality judgment tasks (GJTs) and self-paced reading tasks (SPRTs) differing in time…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sentence Structure
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Yanjie Li; Cindy Brantmeier; Yanming Gao; Mike Strube – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This experimental study examined the effect of answering strategic adjunct questions (AQs) on L2 reading comprehension and strategy use. Participants were 124 Chinese intermediate advanced EFL learners from a large public university in China. Of them, 24 and 100 participated in the pilot study and formal study, respectively. Participants read two…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questioning Techniques, Reading Strategies
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Muthita Chinpakdee; Peter Yongqi Gu – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This article reports findings from a larger research project which aimed to promote learner autonomy among Thai secondary school learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) through strategy-based instruction (SBI). The study involved 30 learners from an intervention class and 32 learners from a comparison class. Nine strategies were introduced…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yu Ka Wong; Barry Bai; Catherine McBride; Mark Shiu Kei Shum; Yanling Zhou – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
The effects of transcription skills, comprising both spelling and handwriting fluency, on sentence writing among young Chinese as a second language (CSL) learners were evaluated and compared to those of reading and oral language using a one-year longitudinal study design. Various writing models postulated that transcription skills are essential in…
Descriptors: Chinese, Nonverbal Ability, Writing Skills, Longitudinal Studies
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Goto, Takaaki – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2022
This study statistically examines students who conduct extensive reading in the first and second semesters by focusing on the reading volume of word counts to address the following research questions: 1) Is there a difference in word counts between students who conduct extensive reading in the first semester and those who continue it in the second…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Habits, Comparative Analysis, Reading Processes
Takumi Kosaka – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2023
The present study investigated the impact of chunk reading training (CRT) on the online syntactic processing and verbal working memory (WM) of Japanese EFL (English as a foreign language) learners in secondary school. For four weeks, the treatment group (N = 31) underwent CRT, while the control group (N = 25) participated in reading training in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Syntax, Phrase Structure, Reading Processes
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Minjin Lee; Jookyoung Jung – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study examined the extent to which textual enhancement and task manipulation affect the learners' attentional processing and the development of second language (L2) grammatical knowledge. A total of 73 Korean college students read an opinion news article in one of four experimental conditions: (1) textually enhanced, careful reading, (2)…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Eye Movements
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Mushoffan Prasetianto; Rizkiana Maharddhika; Syakilla Eka Putri Lestari Trimus – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
Reading is a skill that is initially taught in schools. Students are introduced to the alphabet and later learn to read texts. Reading Foreign languages is also introduced when students learn a foreign language. The student requires reading activities that include vocabulary learning. Extensive reading is one of the practical activities of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension
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Noam 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
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