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HyeJin Hwang; Kristen L. McMaster; Panayiota Kendeou – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
The present study tested the postulation that "knowledge begets reading, which begets knowledge." Using Random Intercepts Cross-Lagged Panel Models (RI-CLPM), we analyzed a U.S. nationally representative data set to examine the directionality and magnitude of the longitudinal relation between domain knowledge (operationalized as science…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Learning Processes, Reading, Short Term Memory
HyeJin Hwang; Kristen L. McMaster; Panayiota Kendeou – Grantee Submission, 2022
The present study tested the postulation that "knowledge begets reading, which begets knowledge." Using Random Intercepts Cross-Lagged Panel Models (RI-CLPM), we analyzed a U.S. nationally representative data set to examine the directionality and magnitude of the longitudinal relation between domain knowledge (operationalized as science…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Learning Processes, Reading, Short Term Memory
Qingyu Yang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates the longitudinal development of Chinese language proficiency among students in a Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) Flagship Program at an American public university from 2014 to 2024. Using Bayesian multilevel regression models, this study assesses the trajectories of listening, speaking, and reading proficiency…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Longitudinal Studies
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Altamimi, Dheifallah; Rashid, Radzuwan Ab – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Arab students who learn English as a foreign language, especially Saudi students, face different challenges during the process of learning of the four English language skills, especially writing and its component (spelling). This paper aims to investigate the preceded causes of students' spelling errors. The main research question sought to be…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Spelling
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de la Fuente, Anahí Alba; Lacroix, Hugues – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2015
In foreign language classrooms we often find that, in addition to their mother tongue (L1), learners already speak--or are learning--at least one other language. As a result, they already have an array of linguistic and cognitive skills that may prove very useful if they are adequately exploited during the language learning process. However, in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Prior Learning
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Puimège, Eva; Peters, Elke – Language Learning Journal, 2019
Television is considered an important source of comprehensible input for second language learners of English and there is some evidence that L2 words can be learned incidentally by watching television. Few studies have looked at the role of TV viewing for learning formulaic sequences, despite the ubiquity of formulaic sequences in spoken English,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Recognition (Psychology)
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Douglas, Dan; Selinker, Larry – Language Testing, 1985
Discusses an alternative framework for handling language testing and proposes some tentative hypotheses concerning principles of language testing. Suggests that taking account of both interlanguage domain engagement and contextualization in testing research, production, and interpretation allows for a richer conceptualization of the language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interference (Language), Interlanguage, Language Proficiency