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Direct linkRob Waring; Mintra Puripunyavanich – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
This study reports the perceptions and understanding of extensive reading (ER) of 259 ER practitioners in Japan, Thailand, Mongolia, and Vietnam. The majority of participants understood the core principles of ER, namely (a) the fluent reading of (b) a lot of (c) easy texts. However, about 25% of the participants in Thailand, Mongolia, and Vietnam…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Reading Materials, Teacher Attitudes, Reading Teachers
Download full textZhao, Aiping; Guo, Ying; Biales, Carrie; Olszewski, Arnold – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2016
This study examined the predictive role of several learner factors in second language (L2) incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading: L2 proficiency, motivation, anxiety, and mastery of strategies. Participants were 129 English learners in a comprehensive university in China. Participants read two English texts and were given an…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Incidental Learning, Foreign Countries
Yamashita, Junko – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2013
Extensive reading (ER) is an instructional option steadily gaining support and recognition in second language (L2) reading pedagogy. Even though many attempts have been made to unravel the impact of ER on L2 development, there is a paucity of investigation into the affective domains of reading. The current study helps fill this gap by examining…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Attitudes, Likert Scales, Questionnaires
Freedman, Leora – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2015
An adaptation of the traditional literary concept of close reading was developed for use in a largely multilingual classroom in which both first language (L1) and second language (L2) students were struggling to comprehend theoretical, lexically dense texts in English. This simplified method of reading a text iteratively and critically is proving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Reading, Reading Strategies, Multilingualism
Cho, Hyonsuk; Brutt-Griffler, Janina – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2015
This study reports Korean English language learners' perceived needs concerning their learning of reading and writing and how the integrated reading and writing instruction impacts their reading comprehension and summary-writing abilities. The study also delineates teacher's challenges faced during the instruction. A total of 93 students in a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Tests
Alhaqbani, Ahmad; Riazi, Mehdi – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2012
This paper reports a study that investigated university students' awareness of their reading strategy use when they read Arabic academic texts. One hundred and twenty-two undergraduate L2 Arabic students mostly from Africa and Asia completed a 30-item survey of reading strategies. Results indicated that these students perceived problem-solving…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, College Students
