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Singh, Leher; Cheng, Qiqi; Yeung, Wei-Jun Jean – Developmental Science, 2023
Infants undergo fundamental shifts in perception that are reported to be critical for language acquisition. In particular, infants' perception of native and non-native sounds begins to align with the properties of their native sound system. Thus far, empirical evidence for this transition--perceptual narrowing--has drawn from socio-economically…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Infants, Native Language, Auditory Discrimination
Ivar Bråten; Ymkje E. Haverkamp; Øistein Anmarkrud – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
The deep cloze test was developed by Jensen and Elbro (Read Writ Interdiscip J 35(5):1221-1237, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-021-10230-w) to assess reading comprehension at the level of global situational understanding. In two independent studies, we examined potential contributors to students' scores on the deep cloze reading…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Scores
Mavrou, Irini; Chao, Javier – Written Communication, 2023
This study examined whether the linguistic distance between the first (L1) and second (L2) language is a significant determinant of L2 writing skills of 292 adult immigrants from 39 different source countries, who were beginner learners of Spanish L2. Gender, age, length of residence in Spain, education level as a proxy for literacy skills in L1,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing Skills, Immigrants, Spanish
Ekaterina Tskhovrebova; Sandrine Zufferey; Elena Tribushinina – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
Connectives such as "because" and "but" are crucial for signaling coherence relations in discourse. They contribute to a better reading comprehension and, thus, academic performance. The aim of this article is to contribute to our understanding of connective development during teenage years by studying individual differences in…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Printed Materials, Predictor Variables, Mastery Learning
Miki Satori – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
This study investigated the relative contributions of English morphological and vocabulary knowledge to second language (L2) reading comprehension among 100 adult Japanese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. The study also investigated the extent to which the roles of morphological and vocabulary knowledge in L2 reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Melissa van der Elst-Koeiman; Eliane Segers; Ronald Severing; Ludo Verhoeven – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2025
This study examined how Papiamento and Dutch attitude and home literacy environment of 168 children in fourth grade of the post-colonial Dutch Caribbean, predicted L1 and L2 reading literacy in sixth grade. Overall, children had higher scores for reading literacy in L1 Papiamento as compared with L2 Dutch. They showed more positive attitudes…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Indo European Languages, Literacy, Native Language
Sun, Baoqi; Loh, Chin Ee; Bakar, Mukhlis Abu; Vaish, Viniti – Language Policy, 2023
This study investigated and compared family language policies (FLPs) from the perspectives of two groups of Singaporean bilingual children: 2,971 English-Chinese and 780 English-Malay children (aged 9-11 years). It also examined how different FLP components -- namely, language beliefs, practices, and management -- influenced their leisure reading…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Recreational Reading, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Pretorius, Melissa J.; le Roux, Mia; Geertsema, Salomé – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2022
This study investigated the correlation and predictive capacity of verbal working memory (VWM) to the reading comprehension of children in their first language (L1) and second language (L2). The term verbal working memory refers to a cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold and manipulate verbal and auditory information temporarily.…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Verbal Communication, Reading Comprehension, Correlation
Segerer, Robin; Niklas, Frank; Suggate, Sebastian; Schneider, Wolfgang – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
Young students who speak a different language at home than that spoken in school (i.e., a minority home-language) appear to exhibit a biased reading self-concept. Importantly, this biased reading self-concept may correspond with altered causal pathways between reading self-concept and achievement in minority home-language students. To test this…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Language Minorities, Native Language, Language Usage
Junko Yamashita; Toshihiko Shiotsu; Kunihiro Kusanagi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
This longitudinal study investigated development of second language (L2) reading comprehension ability and predictive contributions of five L2 reading components (word recognition speed, listening comprehension, vocabulary breadth, grammar knowledge and first language [L1] reading comprehension) using latent growth curve modelling. The…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Agnieszka Ewa Krautz – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Feeling like a different person when speaking different languages has been investigated before and attributed to several linguistic as well as psychological factors. Language proficiency, the context of language acquisition, personality traits, emotional intelligence, and the topic of conversation as well as the interlocutor have been found to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Second Language Learning, Personality Traits, Language Proficiency
Nancy Gagné; Leif M. French; Kirsten M. Hummel – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Within the same learning context, learners' outcomes in terms of oral fluency vary greatly. This study tracked the relative contributions that first language (L1) and initial second language (L2) fluency skill and working memory (WM) made to L2 fluency development. We assessed the performance of French-speaking Grade 6 learners' (n = 47, mean age:…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Short Term Memory, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Amir Mahshanian; Mohammadtaghi Shahnazari; Ahmad Moinzadeh – TESL-EJ, 2025
This study investigates the relationships among working memory (WM), syntactic parsing ability (SP), and L2 reading performance across varying proficiency levels. A cohort of 120 L1-Persian EFL learners was categorized into beginner, intermediate, and advanced proficiency groups based on their IELTS scores. Participants completed a reading span…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Achievement
Blake, Beverley; Mestry, Raj – South African Journal of Education, 2021
Major political changes since 1994 have initiated the pace of change in the South African education system. Parents' values, traditions and practices that served in the past were no longer relevant in the new dynamic educational environment. Parental school choice and "the right to choose" movement has subsequently come to the fore. The…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Parent Aspiration, Parent Background, Predictor Variables
Park, Shinjae – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
Based on the quantitative analysis of L2 English texts from Korean undergraduates, the present paper demonstrates the possibility of distinguishing L2 speaking proficiency with differing measures of syntactic complexity in English writing. To this end, 14 measures of complexity were gauged using an L2 Syntactic Analyzer (Lu, 2010) in 89 EFL essays…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Essays