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Murshida Parvin; Muneera Muftah – Open Education Studies, 2025
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is widely recognized as an effective approach for developing second language (L2) learners' English skills. However, its success often depends on the teacher's ability to design engaging tasks and dynamic learning platforms that foster active participation. While previous studies highlight the importance of…
Descriptors: Age Groups, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Technology Integration
John Macalister; Say Phonekeo – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This study was conducted to understand issues related to the current practice of English teacher education development in the Lao People's Democratic Republic with a focus on reading. It recognizes that what pre-service teachers experience both prior to and during their teacher education are important and need to be understood if the goals of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Teacher Education, Curriculum Development
Monica Cárdenas; Daniela Rocio Ramirez Orellana – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2024
Aim/Purpose: This exploratory qualitative case study examines the perceptions of high-school learners of English regarding a pedagogical intervention involving progressive reduction of captions (full, sentence-level, keyword captions, and no-captions) in enhancing language learning. Background: Recognizing the limitations of caption usage in…
Descriptors: Captions, Language Acquisition, High School Students, English Language Learners
Akhrib, Mohammed; Nedjai, Fatma Zohra Mebtouche – Arab World English Journal, 2021
This study aims to investigate gender differences in English as a foreign language (EFL) reading comprehension, situational and perceived interest for gender-oriented passages. It also examines whether any gender variances in situational or perceived interest in those passages cause gender differences in EFL reading comprehension. Throughout this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension
Denise Dávila – Journal of Literacy Research, 2025
There is a relationship between children's ability to formulate theories of mind (i.e., metacognitive hypotheses) about persons or characters in a text and their comprehension of the text. Nevertheless, few studies examine how young children engage their ontological background knowledge to formulate their theories-of-mind. Set in a public library…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Hispanic American Students
Bensalah, Hiba; Gueroudj, Noureddine – Arab World English Journal, 2020
This research study aims to investigate the impact of cultural schemata on the process of reading culturally-loaded texts, and whether the use of pre-reading activities recompenses for the absence of cultural familiarity. In this regard, EFL readers bring to the text a wide range of experiences. Consequently, such diversity of prior knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Baumert, Jürgen; Fleckenstein, Johanna; Leucht, Michael; Köller, Olaf; Möller, Jens – Language Learning, 2020
Throughout Europe, there is a growing trend for students to start learning foreign languages at elementary school. Although policymakers expect early-start programs to boost second language skills, empirical findings are mixed; recent studies have raised many questions. In this large-scale study, we aimed to close some of these gaps. We examined…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Receptive Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Aris Budianto; Punaji Setyosari; Dedi Kuswandi; Saida Ulfa – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Summarizing strategy is one of the strategies used to develop reading comprehension; however, there is a dearth of literature reviews discussing this important subject. This study aimed to conduct a systematic review of the summarizing strategies used to enhance reading comprehension by EFL students. In addition, the study also identified the…
Descriptors: Reading Writing Relationship, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, Writing Skills
Rosenstein, Ofra; Meir, Irit; Miller, Paul – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
The study explored the contribution of prior knowledge and reliance on L1 syntactic knowledge to L2 written sentence comprehension. Participants, 102 native Hebrew speakers at three education levels (junior high, high school, and postsecondary), answered questions in two sentence categories: Semantically plausible sentences that readers can…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Sentences, Reading Comprehension, Native Language
Misti Shelton – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Uganda Baptist Seminary (UBS) is accredited by the Ugandan National Council for Higher Education and teaches church leaders from Uganda and its surrounding seven countries. The required language of educational instruction is English, although the students come from a multitude of different native languages. This research stems from a need to…
Descriptors: Churches, Multilingualism, Trend Analysis, Christianity
Shin, Jihye; Dronjic, Vedran; Park, Boonjoo – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
Despite the known roles of working memory and background knowledge in the process of reading comprehension, few attempts have been made to elucidate the interaction between these two individual difference factors in second language (L2) reading comprehension. The current study investigated whether and how working memory and background knowledge…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Prior Learning, Adult Students, English (Second Language)
Shepard-Carey, Leah – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2021
Inference-making is integral to reading comprehension, defined as information 'retrieved or generated during reading to fill in information left implicit in a text'. However, there are few studies regarding the inferencing of young emergent multilinguals that account for multilingualism and culture, attend to the learning processes influenced by…
Descriptors: Inferences, Multilingualism, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Aims: Since many Saudi ESL students studying abroad have limited vocabulary and grammar knowledge and poor reading comprehension skills, this article proposes the integration of linguistic landscapes (LLs) in teaching English to Saudi students studying abroad to supplement the English language courses and textbooks they study. Definition of LLs:…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Study Abroad
Buslon, Junette Berenguer; Alieto, Ericson Olario – Online Submission, 2019
The empirical investigation enlisted seventy-six (76) third graders with age ranging from 8-10. Out of the total number of respondents, males and females are equally represented. The study employed a descriptive-quantitative-correlational design. Moreover, the gathering of data was realized through the use of survey and comprehension reading…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Semantics
Lynn, Ethan M. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2021
Two groups of English as a second language students engaged in a fourteen-week repeated reading (RR) treatment: (1) a 3x group (n = 16), which engaged in three readings per session, and (2) a 5x group (n = 15), which engaged in five readings per session. Reading rate and background knowledge were measured at five points to assess the effect of…
Descriptors: Reading Rate, Individual Differences, Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning