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Adunyarittigun, Dumrong – rEFLections, 2021
This research investigated what reading strategies Thai college EFL students who were identified as nonproficient readers are aware of and what reading strategies they use. Data were gathered from a questionnaire, think-aloud and interviews. The analysis identified 3 broad categories of 16 reading strategies employed by the nonproficient readers:…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Syntax, Protocol Analysis
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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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Prior, Anat; Zeltsman-Kulick, Rita; Katzir, Tami – Journal of Research in Reading, 2020
The current study examined the proficiency of Israeli adolescents in reading single words in English, which is taught as a foreign language, and what language skills predict individual variability. Parallel measures of word reading, phonology, decoding, morpho-syntax and vocabulary in Hebrew and English were administered to 217 adolescents in 8th…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Reading Processes, Elementary School Students, Language Proficiency
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Coates, Robert Alexander Graham; Gorham, Judith; Nicholas, Richard – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2017
Recent neurological breakthroughs in our understanding of the Critical Period Hypothesis and prosody may suggest strategies on how phonics instruction could improve L2 language learning and in particular phoneme/grapheme decoding. We therefore conducted a randomised controlled-trial on the application of prosody and phonics techniques, to improve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonics, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Vigner, Gerard – Francais dans le Monde, 1996
Focuses on the best methods and activities for promoting competence in the reading of a foreign language, especially French. The article maintains that French language teaching has a pioneer role in advancing second-language reading strategies and suggests activities that can supplement instruction in this field. (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Class Activities, Context Effect, Decoding (Reading)
Payne, David, Ed. – Notes on Linguistics, 1999
The 1999 issues of "Notes on Linguistics," published quarterly, include the following articles, review articles, reviews, book notices, and reports: "A New Program for Doing Morphology: Hermit Crab"; "Lingualinks CD-ROM: Field Guide to Recording Language Data"; "'Unruly' Phonology: An Introduction to Optimality Theory"; "Borrowing vs. Code…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Arabic, Canada Natives, Code Switching (Language)