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Direct linkJohn, Divya; Devi, G. Sandhiya – Reading Psychology, 2023
Engineering undergraduates face difficulties in comprehending discipline-specific study materials because the reading skill has been neglected at the school-level, and the students themselves have not been motivated adequately to read. This paper hypothesizes that instruction-sessions on reading strategies enable tertiary-level learners to…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students
Download full textNur Ainil Sulaiman – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
A gloss refers to a short definition or explanation of the meaning of a word in a text that can assist learners in reading comprehension and vocabulary learning. This study aims to investigate how glosses in English academic texts affect the reading behaviour of ESL undergraduates while reading is taking place. In addition, it also examines the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Zorba, Mehmet Galip – Turkish Journal of Education, 2023
Recent research suggests that learners should be provided with opportunities to negotiate meanings with other cultures and critically evaluate and reflect on their own culture. Texts have a great potential to provide such opportunities, especially in contexts where learners do not have the chance to experience other cultures through real-time…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods, Video Technology
Hall, Colby; Steinle, Paul K.; Vaughn, Sharon – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2019
This paper reviews findings from four research syntheses that report the effects of academic language and/or reading interventions on language and reading outcomes for English learners who have or are at risk for learning difficulties. Studies included in the syntheses varied in research design and addressed multiple areas of reading and language.…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, English Language Learners, Learning Disabilities, At Risk Students
Chen, Chen; Liu, Yongcan – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2020
This study explored the role of vocabulary breadth and depth in second language learners' performance in IELTS academic reading tests in China. Sixty-two Chinese learners of English as a foreign language completed a vocabulary size test, a vocabulary depth test, and an IELTS reading test. Results showed that vocabulary breadth and depth both…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
Truckenmiller, Adrea J.; Park, Jiyoon; Dabo, Arfang; Wu Newton, Yi-Chieh – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2019
Academic language, which is characterized by the words and structure of the language of schooling, is an important teachable component of academic achievement. When compared to other strong predictors of academic achievement (e.g., decoding, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension), academic language is not as well understood or explicitly taught in…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
Barr, Christopher D.; Uccelli, Paola; Phillips Galloway, Emily – Language Learning, 2019
This study reports on the conceptualization of a new construct targeting the cross-disciplinary academic language skills most relevant to school reading comprehension, targeting the validation of the Core Academic Language Skills (CALS) Instrument, a novel assessment tool which measures this construct. Participants included Grade 4-8 monolingual…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Interdisciplinary Approach, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students
