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Download full textQiaona Yu – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
Unlike alphabetic languages, Chinese text marks no word demarcation. Previous research inserted word-demarcating spaces into Chinese text but found inconsistent effects on reading efficiency. To address the potential trade-off effects of the additional length caused by inserted spaces, this study introduces color-and-font formatting as a word…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Language Proficiency, Reading Processes, Native Language
Direct linkMuravev, Yury – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2023
The premise of this research is that analytical and extensive reading in a digital environment might be used to facilitate second language acquisition at the tertiary education level. Despite the general orientation toward communicative methods in modern second language acquisition, reading methods and techniques have seen an unexpected yet very…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Processes, Reading Tests
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1988
Using a study of 30 Danish freshman college students' vocabularies as a springboard, this paper explores and discusses a number of current assumptions about vocabularies in the mother tongue and in foreign language pedagogics. The paper contends that it is logical to assume that vocabularies in reading are fluid and depend on the text read, on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Tests, Reading Processes
Peer reviewedLee, James F. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
Much research in second language reading uses a free written recall task to measure comprehension. The significance of differences in research design is analyzed. Sixteen groups of college Spanish students (N=20 each group) were given a recall task (in appendix). Research variables, including level of study, language of recall, and pre-reading…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Higher Education, Language Tests
Reves, Thea; Levine, Adina – 1990
The development of a model for criterion-referenced mastery reading comprehension tests for university courses in English as a Second Language (ESL) is designed. In the process of developing this model, two major issues were addressed: clarification of the concept of "criteria" within criterion-referenced testing and choice of the…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Criterion Referenced Tests, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language)
Swenson, Tamara, Ed. – JALT Journal, 1996
The two issues of the journal for teachers of English as a second language in Japan include these articles: "What Do JTEs Really Want?" (Wendy F. Scholefield); "Do EFL Learners Make Instrumental Inferences When Reading? Some Evidence from Implicit Memory Tests" (Suzanne Collins, Hidetsugu Tajika); "Function and Structure…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Entrance Examinations, College Faculty, Communicative Competence (Languages)
