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Direct and Indirect Effects of Independent Language Skills on the Integrated Writing Performance of Chinese-Speaking Students with Low Proficiency
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Liao, Xian; Zhu, Xinhua; Cheong, Choo Mui – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Integrated writing is increasingly used in language assessment programmes. As a hybrid task, it requires students to coordinate different language skills, i.e. listening, reading and writing, to retrieve information from multiple sources, and compose an essay for a specific purpose. Tapping into the varied skills that contribute to successful…
Descriptors: Chinese, Writing Skills, Task Analysis, Language Proficiency
Comparing the Effects of Different Book Reading Techniques on Young Children's Language Development
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Simsek, Zeynep Ceren; Isikoglu Erdogan, Nesrin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
The purpose of this research study is to compare the effects of digital, dialogic and traditional reading on children's language development aged 48-66 months. Fifty-six randomly selected children enrolled in three different classrooms in a public preschool in Turkey participated in the study. The three classrooms were again randomly assigned as…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Dialogs (Language), Language Tests
Differences between the Relationship of L1 Learners' Performance in Integrated Writing with Both Independent Listening and Independent Reading Cognitive Skills
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Cheong, Choo Mui; Zhu, Xinhua; Liao, Xian – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
In recent decades, integrated language competence has been highlighted in the language curricula taught in schools and institutions, and the relationship between test-takers' performance on integrated tasks and comprehension sources has been much studied. The current study employed the frameworks of reading and listening comprehension processes to…
Descriptors: Listening Skills, Reading Skills, Independent Reading, Secondary School Students
Exploring Relationships between Oral Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension amongst English Second Language Readers in South Africa
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Pretorius, Elizabeth J.; Spaull, Nic – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Most analyses of oral reading fluency (ORF) are based on L1 reading, and the norms that have been developed in English are based on first language reading data. This is problematic for developing countries where many children are learning in English as a second language. The aim of the present study is to model the relationship between English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
Effects of Linguistic and Affective Variables on Middle School Students' Writing Performance in the Context of English as a Foreign Language: An Approach Using Structural Equation Modeling
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Lee, Juhee – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
This study examines the relative contributions of linguistic and affective variables to writing performance among students learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in South Korea. In total, 270 middle school students completed four language tests assessing their reading comprehension, grammar knowledge, and descriptive and argumentative…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Structural Equation Models, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Socioeconomic Status, Parent Report of Children's Early Language Skills, and Late Literacy Skills: A Long Term Follow-Up Study among Chinese Children
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Pan, Jinger; Kong, Yan; Song, Shuang; McBride, Catherine; Liu, Hongyun; Shu, Hua – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Previous research on the longitudinal prediction of literacy development has focused mainly on the relationship between early cognitive/language skills and late literacy skills. The present study aimed to test the reliability of a number of measures reported by parents as compared to measuring cognitive and language skills in predicting subsequent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Children, Language Skills
Morphological Awareness and Reading in Second and Fifth Grade: Evidence from Hebrew
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Vaknin-Nusbaum, Vered; Sarid, Miri; Shimron, Joseph – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Research suggests that morphological awareness facilitates word decoding, improves lexical knowledge, and helps reading comprehension (Carlisle, 2010; Nagy et al., 2014; Verhoeven & Perfetti, 2011). The present study examined the relationship among morphological awareness, word recognition and reading comprehension in 153 second- and…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Semitic Languages, Reading Comprehension, Word Recognition
Early Literacy and Comprehension Skills in Children Learning English as an Additional Language and Monolingual Children with Language Weaknesses
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Bowyer-Crane, Claudine; Fricke, Silke; Schaefer, Blanca; Lervåg, Arne; Hulme, Charles – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Many children learning English as an additional language (EAL) show reading comprehension difficulties despite adequate decoding. However, the relationship between early language and reading comprehension in this group is not fully understood. The language and literacy skills of 80 children learning English from diverse language backgrounds and 80…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension