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Sarah Albrecht – Foreign Language Annals, 2025
This exploratory, mixed methods study proposes that pedagogical translation be implemented for biliteracy acquisition in mixed heritage language (HL)-second language (L2) secondary Spanish classrooms. It investigates the mediation of pedagogical translation for reading comprehension in two mixed HL-L2 secondary Spanish classrooms at a suburban…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Strategies-Based Chinese as a Second Language Reading Instruction: Effects and Learners' Perceptions
Jia Lin; Gengsong Gao; Ting Huang – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2023
Strategic reading is an important consideration in the L2 reading classroom. This study investigated the effects of a Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) strategies-based reading instruction program, in which participants were explicitly taught ten top-down reading strategies. Thirty-four students enrolled in an advanced-level Chinese class…
Descriptors: College Students, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Reading Instruction
Mohammad Saber Khaghaninejad – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
This study attempted to examine the impacts of conceptual and perceptual primes on the word recognition and sentence comprehension of beginner, intermediate and advanced EFL learners. Consequently, 246 EFL learners were recruited for study and categorized into three English proficiency levels. The needed data was collected via Lexical Decision…
Descriptors: Priming, Word Recognition, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
Jui-Teng Li; Fuhui Tong; Beverly J. Irby; Rafael Lara-Alecio; Hector Rivera – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This meta-analysis includes experimental and quasi-experimental studies of reading interventions for English learners (ELs) coupled with four specific instructional strategies. The purposes of this meta-analysis were two-fold: (1) to identify the effects of the four instructional strategies (i.e. scaffolding, graphic organizers, interactive read…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Al-Shdeifat, Zainab; Al-Jamal, Dina – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2023
This study examines how visual thinking may affect Jordanian female ninth-graders reading abilities. The design had an experimental feel about it. The study included 66 ninth-grade female students who were studying English as a foreign language (EFL). An instructional program was created and put into place, and a pre-post reading exam was created…
Descriptors: Visualization, Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Grade 9
Khampool, Waraporn; Chumworatayee, Tipamas – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This study examined the effects of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) instruction on the reading comprehension of Thai university students majoring in Electrical Power Engineering. The participants were 15 more proficient and 15 less proficient learners studying in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course. The scores from the pre-and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Foreign Countries
Hossein Kargar Behbahani; Sedigheh Karimpour – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
This study examined the effect of mobile-mediated dynamic assessment on reading comprehension and reading fluency skills of Iranian L2 learners. With 50 Iranian L2 learners, randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups, a pretest-posttest control group design was used. Whereas the control group received traditional instructor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension
Karami, Amirreza; Bowles, Freddie A.; Liggett, Carly Ann – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2021
This literature review provides language teachers and researchers with an overview of the studies conducted in the last 20 years regarding the use of text-related videos to teach reading comprehension in second/foreign language classrooms. Articles were systematically selected from six data bases: Google Scholar, Quick Search, Wiley Online…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Research Reports
Katemba, Caroline V.; Sihombing, Natalia M. – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2023
The aim of this study is to compare how well students who learn the Venn diagram technique and those who learn Know, Want, Learn (KWL) chart method perform in terms of their reading comprehension. This study measured pre- and post-test performance using a quantitative research method and comparative design. 64 Grade X students from Lembang in…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, Visual Aids, Reading Instruction
Suzanne Graham; Pengchong Zhang; Julia Hofweber; Linda Fisher; Heike Krüsemann – Modern Language Journal, 2024
This study considers the relative benefits for vocabulary learning of exposure to two types of texts--literary or nonliterary--used with two teaching approaches. These approaches were termed "functional and creative", respectively. In the former, learners' attention was drawn to factual information and linguistic features in order to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Role Theory, Teaching Methods
Seyyed Ali Ostovar-Namaghi; Mostafa Morady Moghaddam; Elahe Rad – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
This study investigates the effect of interactive games on improving reading comprehension skills and attitudes toward games among Iranian learners of English as a foreign language. In this quantitative study, the participants in the control group received reading comprehension instruction through traditional models of teaching reading while the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Educational Games
Saleem Mohd Nasim; Sherif Mohammad Sayed Mohamed; Muhammad Nadeem Anwar; Muhammad Ishtiaq; Syeda Mujeeba – Cogent Education, 2024
This study investigates the efficacy of the web-based Cooperative Integrated Reading Composition (CIRC) technique in developing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) reading comprehension skills among first-year prep Experimental Language School learners. The research aims to address the low performance of students in EFL reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Web Based Instruction
Bandar Ibrahim Alqazlan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Arabic orthography is mainly presented either in shallow orthography (with all diacritics) for novice students or in deep orthography (without diacritics) for superior readers. However, the shallow orthography is heavily loaded with diacritics which may burden the reading process, whereas deep orthography can cause ambiguity (heterophonic…
Descriptors: Arabic, Distinctive Features (Language), Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
Caroline Victorine Katemba; Sarah Vannessa Tomatala – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2024
Reading in a foreign language (English) has been a problem for primary school kids in remote places in Indonesia. The purpose of this study is to determine if there is a significant difference in the effect of extensive reading (ER) between individual and group teaching. Students were divided into two categories, one class read individually, and…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, Reading Tests
Kristie L. Calvin; Shelley Gray – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of a graphic organizer for improving the expository text comprehension of adolescent Spanish-English bilingual students with learning disabilities. Students were two females and one male. Using a multiple baseline single case design, researchers taught students to create a funnel map graphic…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language)