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Nobuhiro Kamiya – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study examined the effects of watching gestures and lip movement on second language (English) listening comprehension. The participants were 30 high and 22 low proficient learners of English. There were six listening tasks combining two variables: modality and difficulty. The modality consisted of three types of assessments: Body (the upper…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Video Technology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Xiaopeng Zhang; Xiaofei Lu – Language Learning, 2024
This study examined the relationship of linguistic complexity, captured using a set of lexical richness, syntactic complexity, and discoursal complexity indices, to second language (L2) learners' perception of text difficulty, captured using L2 raters' comparative judgment on text comprehensibility and reading speed. Testing materials were 180…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Decision Making
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Taegang Lee; Yoonhyoung Lee; Sungmook Choi – Language Learning & Technology, 2025
Empirical evidence remains sparse about how videos enhanced with first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) subtitles influence cognitive load in L2 learners. To address this point, 25 Korean undergraduate students were exposed to six short videos: baseline, L1-subtitled, and L2-subtitled videos at both high and low difficulty levels (determined…
Descriptors: Captions, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Language Processing
Morales, Miraida – ProQuest LLC, 2019
To investigate how readability affects the way adults who are learning to read evaluate health information, a mixed methods research study was designed based on a sociotechnical framework and using theories of everyday life information seeking. The study analyzed a corpus of consumer health information documents (N = 501) using the CohMetrix text…
Descriptors: Readability, Adults, Adult Literacy, Health
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
The present study aimed to describe and evaluate the current assessment practices prevalent in the different translation courses offered at the College of Languages and Translation (COLT). A sample of specialized translation final exams in 18 translation subject areas was collected. Each final exam was analyzed in terms of the following: (1) # of…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Tests, Readability, Semitic Languages
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Chou, Shih Yung; Luo, Jiaxi; Ramser, Charles – Journal of International Education in Business, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine student sentiments regarding high-quality vs low-quality teaching. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses a text mining technique to identify the positive and negative patterns of student sentiments from student evaluations of teaching (SET) provided on Ratemyprofessors.com. After identifying…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Student Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, Negative Attitudes
O'Hear, Michael F.; Ramsey, Richard N. – 1990
A study was conducted to determine whether there was any match between student perception of reading ease and the readability of three main line, first-year college composition texts (Daugherty; Kinneavy, McCleary, and Nakadate; Lauer, Montague, Lunsford, and Emig) as determined by five commonly used readability formulas. Two chapters (on…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Readability