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Kang, Hyeonah; Kweon, Soo-Ok; Choi, Sungmook – Language Teaching Research, 2022
This study employs eye-tracking to investigate how first (L1) and second language (L2) glosses affect lexical uptake and reading behaviors in L2 learners of English. The study also explores the relationship between lexical uptake and reading behaviors as a function of gloss type. To investigate this, 81 Korean university students were asked to…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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Miles, Katharine Pace; Ehri, Linnea C.; Lauterbach, Mark D. – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2016
The study examined whether exposure to spellings of new vocabulary words improved monolinguals' and language minority (LM) students' (n = 25) memory for pronunciations, meanings, and spellings of the words. College students who are native English-speaking monolinguals (n = 12) and LM students who learned English as their second language (n = 13)…
Descriptors: Mnemonics, Vocabulary Development, Spelling, Language Minorities
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Yamasaki, Brianna L.; Prat, Chantel S. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2014
Research on individual differences in second language (L2) reading ability has primarily focused on factors known to contribute to first language (L1) reading ability, with little consideration of factors mediating interference between languages. In an exploratory analysis, we compared the degree to which the linguistic interference that readers…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Second Languages, Reading Ability, Individual Differences
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Baird, Anne D.; Babb, Kimberley A. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2014
This study of first-year students in a Canadian university examined linguistic diversity and assessed associations with academic performance and reading abilities in English, the language of instruction. Among 68 students, 19 spoke English as a second language (secondary anglophones). Compared with 49 primary anglophones, these students'…
Descriptors: Native Language, Reading Skills, Language of Instruction, College Freshmen