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Diasti, Krismalita Sekar; Murniati, Cecilia Titiek; Hartono, Heny – Journal of English Teaching, 2023
Reading is one of the fundamental aspects underlying students' achievement yet becomes an activity abstained by students. In fact, EFL learners demand more enjoyable and diverse reading activities. Most EFL students perceive that they are continuously exposed to prevalent reading activities. This qualitative study aims to scrutinize the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Academic Achievement
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Oihana Leonet; Elizabet Arocena; Eider Saragueta – Literacy, 2025
This study investigates the use of metacognitive strategies by young emergent multilingual students in a translanguaging pedagogy scenario. From a multilingual perspective, we understand metacognition as a broader concept that refers to the learning or thinking processes that encapsulate metalinguistic and crosslinguistic awareness. We focus on…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Reading Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kao, Yu-Ting; Wu, Hui-Hsun – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2022
Although sociocultural theory has aroused researchers' interest in investigating the social role in language learning, few studies have investigated the possible effect of sociocultural-based teaching approaches on reading comprehension and ways to increase learners' strategic reading repertoire. This study employs dynamic assessment (DA), a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Difficulties
Tom Cobb – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
Some words in English are derived words, i.e., words with an affix that changes their part of speech, like know "(v)" [right arrow] "knowable (adj)," or meaning, like "pleasant (adj)" [right arrow] "unpleasant (adj)." As a reading teacher, Tom Cobb had always believed that derived words were not particularly…
Descriptors: Morphemes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Torabi, Saeedeh; Maleki, Roohollah – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2022
The present study set out to explore Iranian EFL learners' Reading Comprehension Problems (RCPs) and the tentative solutions for such problems from learners' perspectives. The participants included 20 female EFL learners within the age range of 18 to 28 studying at the intermediate level of language proficiency at Safir language institute in…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Philip Capin; Jeremy Miciak; Bethany H. Bhat; Greg Roberts; Paul K. Steinle; Jack Fletcher; Sharon Vaughn – Remedial and Special Education, 2024
This U.S. study evaluated the effects of a reading intervention for emergent bilingual students with significant reading difficulties in Grades 6 and 7 within a multisite randomized controlled trial. Emergent bilinguals were randomized to a researcher-provided intervention (n = 171) or business-as-usual comparison condition (n = 169). Results on a…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Middle School Students, Grade 7, English (Second Language)
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Haris, Abdul – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study aims to understand the problems faced by students in reading Arabic texts that are not vowed (without "harakat"), and the reconstruction of "nahwu" material for the benefit of reading Arabic texts that are not vowed in the lecturer's view. Research sample consisted of 90 students and 7 lecturers from Arabic major.…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Arabic, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chen, Po-Hsuan – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2019
The present study aimed at exploring the joint effects of reading motivation and reading anxiety on English reading comprehension in the Taiwanese English as a foreign language (EFL) context. To this end, a total of 140 (26 males, 114 females) EFL freshmen from required General English I courses at a university in southern Taiwan satisfactorily…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Motivation, Anxiety, Reading Comprehension
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Salarvand, Leila; Guimaraes, Nathalia; Balagholi, Zahra – THAITESOL Journal, 2022
Reading fluency is a skill, which is closely linked to reading comprehension. Learners' struggle with fluency in reading can be a significant hurdle to proficiency in their overall reading comprehension and competency. This paper, based on the thematic analysis approach, presents some theoretically pedagogical strategies discovered for developing…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Language Proficiency, Rhyme
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Rahmat, Noor Hanim; Arepin, Mazlen; Sulaiman, Suraiya – Asian Journal of University Education, 2020
This study investigates students' fear in academic reading as well as the influence of perceived difficulties in their reading comprehension. The paper aims to study the level of anxiety as experienced by undergraduate students in academic reading. Data from 25 respondents were analyzed quantitatively using Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS) developed…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Fear, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
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Abualzain, Osama Yousif Ibrahim – Arab World English Journal, 2020
The study aims at investigating the difficulties encountered by English centers teachers of multileveled classes in teaching reading comprehension, and suggests some suitable strategies that can alleviate the problems. To run the study, thirty-four language center teachers from Khartoum State are the sample of the study. A questionnaire, supported…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Reading Comprehension, Barriers
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Yang, Shuyi – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2021
The present study investigated the applicability of word reading, word segmentation, and text reading as diagnostic tools to assess comprehension, detect struggling readers, and inform instruction for low-level Chinese as second language (L2) learners (n = 70). The results showed that the three instruments measured different dimensions of word…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Reading Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Mandarin Chinese
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Perkins, Kyle; Jiang, Xuan – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2019
In this paper, we first introduce functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), followed by a review of three themes of neuroimaging research on the neural correlates of reading-related skills: (1) typical and struggling readers, including developmental dyslexics, (2) an inverted U-shaped function in second language reading that portrays an…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Correlation, Second Language Learning
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Soledad Pampillo; Sandra Lauría – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
This study examines the difficulty shown by Spanish-speaking university students in decoding pre-modified noun phrases (NPs) in English. NPs carry a heavy lexical and conceptual load and foreign language (L2) readers may be challenged by first language (L1) crosslinguistic influence triggered by cognate NPs. Therefore, this study also attempts to…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Thage, Esther Molebogeng; Mokgosi, Patricia Namayammu; Mthembu, Jane Tozama – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2021
Guided reading (GR) approach has been shown to have positive effect on reading fluency and comprehension. However, most studies on GR have focused on primary schools, specifically the Foundation Phase. Therefore, this study employed the GR approach to examine its possible effects on the reading proficiencies of Grade 9 English Second Language…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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