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Daniel Malakowsky – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2023
Twenty adult ESL students at a community college participated in a semester reading intervention. Participants received a modified extensive reading treatment, and some participants received an additional repeated reading direct instruction reading intervention. The author examined the impact of the reading interventions on ESL students' reading…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Community Colleges
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Li, Chuchu; Wang, Min; Davis, Joshua A.; Guan, Connie Qun – Journal of Research in Reading, 2019
The present study investigated the representation and processing of segmental and tonal information in visual Chinese word recognition in native and non-native Chinese readers. Two experiments using homophone judgement paradigm were conducted. When judging two Chinese characters (Experiment 1), both groups showed difficulties when the segmental…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Intonation, Word Recognition, Chinese
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Chung, Wei-Lun; Jarmulowicz, Linda – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
For monolingual English-speaking children, judgment and production of stress in derived words, including words with phonologically neutral (e.g., -ness) and non-neutral suffixes (e.g., "-ity"), is important to both academic vocabulary growth and to word reading. For Mandarin-speaking adult English learners (AELs) the challenge of…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers, Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning
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Taguchi, Etsuo; Gorsuch, Greta; Lems, Kristin; Rosszell, Rory – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2016
Reading fluency research and practice have recently undergone some changes. While past studies and interventions focused on reading speed as their main goal, now more emphasis is being placed on exploring the role prosody plays in reading, and how listening to an audio model of a text while reading may act as a form of scaffolding, or aid, to…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Reading Instruction
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Ding, Yi; Liu, Ru-De; McBride, Catherine A.; Fan, Chung-Hau; Xu, Le; Wang, Jia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
This study examined pinyin (the official phonetic system that transcribes the lexical tones and pronunciation of Chinese characters) invented spelling and English invented spelling in 72 Mandarin-speaking 6th graders who learned English as their second language. The pinyin invented spelling task measured segmental-level awareness including…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonetics, Intonation, Pronunciation
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Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2016
The greatest difficulty in reading Arabic script for nonnatives has long been considered as the absence of short vowels, however there is more to be dealt with. While the correlation of 28 Arabic consonants pose no great difficulty in deciphering the script, the six vowel phonemes voiced only by three letters even with help of some relevant…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Written Language, Islam, Muslims
King, Janet K.; And Others – 1975
The growing emphasis on reading in the foreign language classroom is examined from the standpoint of learning theory, learning strategies, and classroom practice. The reading process in the native language, the origin and application of new learning strategies in foreign language reading, and modifications and revisions in teaching practices are…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar
Laberge, Diane, Ed.; And Others – 1992
Papers on French linguistics, most in French, address the following topics: micro structural treatment of regionalisms in three French dictionaries; effects of the use of Quebec French on the intelligibility of synthesized speech; reading comprehension as a constructive process; acoustic markers of the utterance in Quebec French; constraints and…
Descriptors: Basque, Black Dialects, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Consonants