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Download full textAl-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Introduction: Many ESL college students have reading comprehension problems in English, such as difficulty understanding ideas explicitly or implicitly stated in a text, making inferences, and inferring meanings of difficult words from context. Aims: The article proposes the integration of inspirational quotes in the teaching of English to EFL…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Direct linkZipke, Marcy; Ehri, Linnea C.; Cairns, Helen Smith – Reading Research Quarterly, 2009
An experiment examined whether metalinguistic awareness involving the detection of semantic ambiguity can be taught, and whether this instruction improves students' reading comprehension. Lower SES third graders from a variety of cultural backgrounds (M = 8 yr. 7 mo., N = 46) were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. Those receiving…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Metalinguistics, Semantics
