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Zhou, Jing; Day, Richard R. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2020
The study investigated the effect of marginal glossing and frequency of occurrence on the incidental learning of six aspects of vocabulary knowledge through reading in the second language (L2) Chinese. Participants were 30 intermediate L2 Chinese learners in an American public university. The MACOVA tests indicated that the treatment group who…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
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Su, Xiaoxiang; Kim, Young-Suk – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2014
In the present study, we examined the relation of knowledge of semantic radicals to students' language proficiency and word reading for adult Chinese-as-a-foreign language students. Ninety-seven college students rated their proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing in Chinese, and were administered measures of receptive and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Word Recognition