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Direct linkJonathan Edward Malone – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The tantalizing prospects of learning benefits from multimodal conditions on second language (L2) learning in general, and L2 vocabulary development in particular, have important implications. Indeed, opening a language learning app on any device provides the immediate experience of simultaneous input modalities, and a wide range of input types.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedHelen H. Shen; Dexin Dai – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This study investigated college Chinese a second language learners' word segmentation error patterns in reading instructional-level Chinese sentences, the relationship between word segmentation errors and reading comprehension, and learners' perspectives on the role of word segmentation in reading comprehension. The results showed that the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Reconceptualizing the Role of Oral Language Predictors in Korean EFL Learners' Reading Comprehension
Download full textJeeyoung Park; Yusun Kang – English Teaching, 2025
Oral language comprehension (OLC) and vocabulary depth are widely recognized as key predictors of reading comprehension. However, research has either provided a limited representation of OLC or failed to acknowledge the distinctive predictive nature of vocabulary depth. This study investigates the combined contributions of OLC, conceptualized as a…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Bilki, Zeynep; Plakans, Lia – TESOL Journal, 2022
Academic reading in English requires processing of challenging advanced texts for comprehension. Highly proficient second language (L2) readers, such as graduate students, are expected to interpret complex texts fluently and efficiently for academic success, yet the field has little evidence on how these readers process texts. Through two…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Advanced Students, Reading Comprehension
Taehyeong Kim; Byungmin Lee – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2025
The Korean College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) aims to assess Korean high school students' scholastic ability required for college readiness. As a high-stakes test, the examination serves as a pivotal hurdle for university admission and exerts a strong washback effect on the educational system in Korea. The present study set out to investigate…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Tests, Multiple Choice Tests
Zahra Neshatian; Mohammad Saber Khaghaninejad – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This study scrutinized the effects of words' superiority, regularity, frequency and length on the intermediate and advanced EFL learner's visual word recognition. Moreover, it attempted to check whether each of these parameters could be statistically a significant predictor on recognition tasks. Accordingly, 118 intermediate and 127 advanced adult…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Word Recognition
Gavin Bui; Weiran Zhang – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
This mixed-methods study investigated the impact of musical lyrics and working memory capacities on second language (L2) English reading comprehension among adult Chinese native speakers. Participants were 57 adult ESL learners with advanced L2 proficiency, divided into high and low working memory capacity groups based on a pre-test. They…
Descriptors: Music, Singing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Noam Siegelman; Irina Elgort; Marc Brysbaert; Niket Agrawal; Simona Amenta; Jasmina Arsenijevic Mijalkovic; Christine S. Chang; Daria Chernova; Fabienne Chetail; A. J. Benjamin Clarke; Alain Content; Davide Crepaldi; Nastag Davaabold; Shurentsetseg Delgersuren; Avital Deutsch; Veronika Dibrova; Denis Drieghe; Dušica Filipovic Ðurdevic; Brittany Finch; Ram Frost; Carolina A. Gattei; Esther Geva; Aline Godfroid; Lindsay Griener; Esteban Hernández-Rivera; Anastasia Ivanenko; Juhani Järvikivi; Lea Kawaletz; Anurag Khare; Jun Ren Lee; Charlotte E. Lee; Christina Manouilidou; Marco Marelli; Timur Mashanlo; Ksenija Mišic; Koji Miwa; Pauline Palma; Ingo Plag; Zoya Rezanova; Enkhzaya Riimed; Jay Rueckl; Sascha Schroeder; Irina A. Sekerina; Diego E. Shalom; Natalia Slioussar; Neža Marija Slosar; Vanessa Taler; Kim Thériault; Debra Titone; Odonchimeg Tumee; Ross van de Wetering; Ark Verma; Anna Fiona Weiss; Denise Hsien Wu; Victor Kuperman – Language Learning, 2024
This article presents the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project that offers data on English reading and listening comprehension from 7,338 university-level advanced learners and native speakers of English representing 19 countries. The database also includes estimates of reading rate and seven component skills of English, including vocabulary,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Khataee, Elnaz – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
Reading comprehension is an important skill for EFL learners with fewer opportunities to communicate and gain knowledge in English. For a complete comprehension, the interaction between the student's prior knowledge and the content is necessary. Background knowledge plays the most important role in comprehension. The present study used a mixed…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Lai, Hongling; Wang, Dianjian; Ou, Xiancai – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This empirical study investigates the effects of different caption modes on the content and vocabulary comprehension by Chinese English learners with different levels of English proficiency. The results show that the full captioned group performed better on content comprehension than the keyword group, while no significant difference was found on…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Alahmadi, Alaa; Foltz, Anouschka – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
This study explores how vocabulary learning strategy usage and skills in the four language domains relate to participants' increase in vocabulary size and to the learning of specific vocabulary items over a certain period of time. Sixty-one advanced L1 Arabic L2 learners of English read target words in semi-authentic reading materials and were…
Descriptors: Translation, Inferences, Semitic Languages, Native Language
Kim, Sanghee; Song, Mi-Jeong – English Teaching, 2020
This study investigates the role of age of first exposure in the acquisition and processing of English articles in an EFL setting. Fifty advanced Korean learners of English participated in a grammatical acceptability judgment task and a self-paced reading task. The participants were divided into two groups depending on the initial age at which…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Advanced Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Karami, Hossein; Kouhpaee Nejad, Mohammadhossein; Nourzadeh, Saeed; Ahmadi Shirazi, Masoumeh – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
This study was set to cross-validate a bilingual Persian-English version of the Vocabulary Size Test (VST) against the monolingual English version and compare Iranian EFL learners' performance on the two versions. Various bilingual versions of the VST have been developed based on the assumption that bilingual versions are not affected by the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Indo European Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Hrdlicková, Zuzana – Advanced Education, 2021
It is evident from the PISA 2018 results that a trend in mean performance in reading has been declining in the Slovak Republic. The KEGA Project "Idioms in Business Communication", run at the Department of English Language, aims at improving reading literacy, widening formal and informal vocabulary and facilitating business…
Descriptors: Business English, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Elfiondri; Kasim, Usman; Mustafa, Faisal; Putra, Tomi Mandala – TESOL International Journal, 2020
Studies have shown that reading comprehension is the most difficult section of the Paper-Based Test (PBT) TOEFL. Therefore, this research aimed to identify which sub-skill in reading comprehension poses the greatest challenges for the students and how this sub-skill correlates to other reading comprehension sub-skills. To achieve this purpose,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
