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Carolina Torrejon Capurro; Lindsey Moses; Paula Garces – Reading Teacher, 2024
As part of a large study aiming to understand how kindergarten children in Colombia used translanguaging during independent play, Paula (the teacher) along with Dr. Moses (lead researcher) co-designed a 6-week play-based intervention that included a variety of learning experiences such as partner reading, small-group reading, and supported play,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Kindergarten, Young Children
Brett Mohar – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
L2 extensive reading (ER) research primarily studies intermediate and upper-intermediate learners, but few studies investigate beginners. This study addresses this gap by reporting on beginner Japanese as Foreign Language (JFL) learners' attempts to do ER according to Waring and McLean's (2015) ER principles. In this study, 13 second-semester…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Introductory Courses, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate
Vidya Mandarani; Pratiwi Retnaningdyah; Ali Mustofa – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
As a means for students to comprehend and communicate knowledge in our technologically advanced and culturally diverse globalized societies, more integrative ELT approaches are required. Multiliteracies is a literacy concept that addresses meaning-making variability in various cultural, social, or domain-specific contexts. Extensive reading…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Verhovtsova, Olga; Ishchenko, Olga; Kalay, Dilsah; Tikan, Yana – Advanced Education, 2022
The study aims to investigate the higher education students' and teachers' perception of using literary text in the foreign language course; to evaluate learners' progress in the foreign language communicative competence throughout the experiment period; to outline the policies and strategies of using analytical reading in the English class, which…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Wissman, Kelly K. – Journal of Children's Literature, 2022
In this article, the author considers the affordances of bringing theories of affect (e.g., Davies, 2014; Dutro, 2019; Leander & Boldt, 2013) to understandings of meaning-making with culturally sustaining picturebooks within an intervention setting. Culturally sustaining picturebooks are defined as books reflective of multiple languages and…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, Picture Books
Amy Clark – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024
Emergent bi/multilingual children have historically been afforded few opportunities to engage dialogically with peers and teachers in posing authentic questions and co-constructing interpretations of texts as their reading instruction has traditionally been skills driven. Additionally, more recent scholarship has identified increased opportunities…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Spanish Literature, Spanish, Language Maintenance
Jones, Sally Ann – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2021
This article is a review of research in English language education (ELE) in multilingual Singapore from 2010 to 2020. Most research activity has been in the areas of reading and writing while the least has been in speaking and listening and learning spaces. Some findings show how students may be distanced from learning and how complex thinking is…
Descriptors: Educational Research, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Langille, James; Green, Zoila – Canadian Journal of Education, 2021
Complexity of the various needs that come with English language learners (ELLs) beyond language learning (such as learning gaps, social and cultural differences, etc.) and increased numbers of English language learners in Canadian schools have led educational stakeholders to seek ways to promote reading improvement. While literature points out the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, English Language Learners, Phonics, Reading Instruction
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
The present study proposes the integration of mobile fiction Apps (MFAs) in reading instruction to help EFL college students understand the form and content of literary works. It will give examples of fiction Apps that can be downloaded from the Google Play and iPhone App Stores, give the advantages of using MFAs, literary appreciation skills that…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Fiction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Akhlaghi-Baghoojari, Elham; Bédi, Branislav; Chua, Cathy; Horváthová, Ivana; Ivanova, Nedelina; Maizonniaux, Christèle; Mykhats, Marta; Chiaráin, Neasa Ní; Rayner, Manny; Orian Weiss, Catherine; Zviel-Girshin, Rina – Research-publishing.net, 2022
We present a study in which multimedia alphabet books were constructed for ten languages using the Learning And Reading Assistant (LARA) platform. We describe the alphabet books we built, the different design features they instantiate, and an initial evaluation using an anonymous online questionnaire. Links are provided to the books themselves,…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Childrens Literature, Electronic Books, Second Language Learning
Laufer, Batia – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2021
In the late 1980s Batia Laufer worked with teachers who believed that to understand a text it was enough to understand 80% of the text's word tokens. In response, Laufer set out to calculate the minimal text coverage, i.e., percentage of running words in a text the reader should understand to comprehend it reasonably well. In 1992, she explored…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Inferences
Kusumaningputri, Reni – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2022
This article reports on a single case study investigating the adoption of reading portfolio and video-mediated reflection tasks so as to promote Indonesian university students' engagement in dialogic reading. Nested in a classroom ethnography design, data were collected through multiple interviews, teaching journals, and students'…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Task Analysis, Video Technology, Computer Mediated Communication
Wissman, Kelly K. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2021
This study explores the possibilities and tensions that emerged when a literacy specialist brought a culturally sustaining lens to her work in a reading intervention setting with five emergent bilinguals. Utilizing a case study methodology, the study draws on data from class transcripts, interviews, student writing and artwork, and fieldnotes…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Instruction, Culturally Relevant Education, Monolingualism
Thoms, Joshua J.; Poole, Frederick – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
This exploratory study analyzes learner-learner interactions within a virtual environment when collaboratively reading Spanish poetry in a Hispanic literature course at the college level via an ecological theoretical perspective (van Lier, 2004). The goals of the study are (a) to present empirical data that illustrate the theoretical construct of…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Cooperative Learning
Cano, Jessica; Ruiz, Nadeen Teresa – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
Throughout our targeted approach of explicit collaborative translation during small-group reading instruction in a bilingual education classroom, fourth grade emergent bilinguals employed the strategy to comprehend narrative text in a range of ways, similar to middle school students in reading instruction research. As students acknowledged the…
Descriptors: Translation, Bilingual Education, Code Switching (Language), Small Group Instruction