NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Temelman-Yogev, Lilach; Katzir, Tami; Prior, Anat – Metacognition and Learning, 2020
Success in higher education is highly dependent on students' ability to efficiently read and comprehend large amounts of text in the speaker's first/native language (L1) and also in a Foreign Language (FL). Good text comprehension requires readers to implement a variety of metacognitive processes in order to self-regulate understanding. However,…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Native Language
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Mor, Billy; Prior, Anat – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
Reading efficiently in a second language (L2) is a crucial skill, but it is not universally achieved. Here we ask whether L2 reading efficiency is better captured as a language specific skill or whether it is mostly shared across L1 and L2, relying on general language abilities. To this end, we examined word frequency and predictability effects in…
Descriptors: Prediction, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Prior, Anat; Kroll, Judith F.; Macwhinney, Brian – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
We investigated the influence of word class and translation ambiguity on cross-linguistic representation and processing. Bilingual speakers of English and Spanish performed translation production and translation recognition tasks on nouns and verbs in both languages. Words either had a single translation or more than one translation. Translation…
Descriptors: Probability, Bilingualism, Translation, Short Term Memory