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Direct linkEtsuo Taguchi; Greta Gorsuch; Kristin Lems; Hiroto Toda; Toshiko Kawaguchi; Kirsten M. Snipp – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This paper examines learners' fluency development in L2 silent reading rate and comprehension. In both L1 and L2 readings, a positive relationship between readers' silent reading rate and comprehension has not been as firmly established as theories might propose. Based on Wallot et al. (2014), the paper indicates the need to look at readers'…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency
Guler, Nilufer, Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
Teaching English language learners has long presented challenges for teachers tasked with bringing these students to a level of language comprehension comparable to that of native speakers. These challenges and issues can lead to difficulty comprehending core academic topics for those learning the English language. "Optimizing Elementary…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Elementary School Students, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Ukrainetz, Teresa A., Ed. – PRO-ED, Inc., 2015
"School-Age Language Intervention: Evidence-based Practices" explains how to teach the language and literacy skills, strategies, and underlying processes needed for educational success. This book brings together an array of experts to provide the latest practical and evidence-based guidance to school speech-language pathologists.…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Language Acquisition, Intervention
Miller, Leah D.; Perkins, Kyle – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, 1990
Observational studies have shown that very little time is devoted to comprehension instruction in reading classes. This paper presents some techniques for comprehension instruction and some guidance on how to teach students to apply the reading skills they have learned. (26 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills
Keh, Claudia L. – Guidelines: A Periodical for Classroom Language Teachers, 1988
Smith's approach to reading comprehension is used as the basis of an activity related to the Use of English Exam in Hong Kong. The eight-step activity is described and shown to combine sound reading theory with an academic, test-oriented syllabus. (3 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedWolf, Darlene F. – Modern Language Journal, 1993
Data from a study on second-language reading comprehension show that assessment task type, language of assessment, and target language experience uniformly affect learners' ability to demonstrate their reading comprehension. A literature review is included. (Contains 57 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Second Language Instruction
Saito-Abbott, Yoshiko – 1991
A study investigated whether: (1) deletion of relationals, which are function words in Japanese, from Japanese text affects the text processing strategies of native and nonnative readers, as measured by indices of reading time and comprehension; (2) nonnative readers' proficiency levels affect reading strategies when processing Japanese texts with…
Descriptors: Function Words, Japanese, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedCarrell, Patricia L.; Eisterhold, Joan C. – TESOL Quarterly, 1983
Discusses the important role of background knowledge in a psycholinguistic model of EFL/ESL reading and demonstrates the relevance of schema-theoretic views of reading to the teaching of reading to EFL/ESL students. Also discusses classroom implications of the schema-theoretic view and suggests techniques for bringing about reader-centered EFL/ESL…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Psycholinguistics, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedKern, Richard G. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1992
Some of the cognitive and affective factors influencing second language reading comprehension are reviewed, and an instructional technique designed to both guide the reading process and develop comprehension at several levels is described. Teachers are urged to develop process-oriented reading comprehension activities in collaboration with…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Learning Motivation, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedHamp-Lyons, Elizabeth – System, 1983
An ESL reading efficienty course was designed to tackle "sheer volume," frequently the nonnative speaker's greatest difficulty with university courses. Using overhead transparencies coupled with tape recordings, and eventually proceeding to real textbooks, sufficient practice was accomplished in the immediate controlled situation, but…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Higher Education, Modern Language Curriculum, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedBernhardt, Elizabeth B. – Modern Language Journal, 1983
Presents data on the impact of oral and silent reading on reading comprehension. Hypothesizes that reading comprehension is enhanced significantly by silent, rather than oral reading, and that re-reading is an effective mode for increasing comprehension in either mode. (EKN)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, German, Language Research
Farago, Magda Leonardi – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1979
Discusses a paragraph-centered approach to the teaching of reading in a foreign language. (CFM)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Language Instruction, Paragraphs, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedYoung, Dolly Jesusita – Foreign Language Annals, 1993
Cognitive and affective responses to one authentic and three edited texts were examined with four levels of university-level learners of Spanish. Results indicated that all students comprehended significantly more from the authentic passage than from the edited ones and also responded more favorably to the authentic passages. (Contains 47…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Editing, Instructional Materials, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedWiddowson, H. G. – ELT Journal, 1983
The value of literature as instructional material in English as a second language is related to the fact that to understand literature, not only the language system but also the contextual meaning must be understood. In addition, the fictional element of literature can add interest for students. (MSE)
Descriptors: Cultural Context, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Literary Criticism
Bernhardt, Elizabeth B. – 1993
The aim of this book is to provide a thorough account of what is known about the acquisition of reading abilities in a second language and to foster a more principled research and instruction in second language literacy. Discussion is set forth from a variety of perspectives: first, through examinations of theoretical models of the reading process…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Reading Comprehension
