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Menahem Yeari; Adi Hadad; Ofra Korat – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Numerous studies have examined the positive and negative effects of various types of interactions that occur while children view electronic book (e-book) stories. However, the effects of the different types of interactions have not been compared, and more importantly, the optimal amount and reoccurrence of these interactions on children has not…
Descriptors: Electronic Books, Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Story Reading
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Capodieci, Agnese; Zamperlin, Claudia; Friso, Gianna; Carretti, Barbara – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2021
It has been well documented that oral language skills are precursors of the development of written abilities, meaning that improving oral language skills, e.g. vocabulary, listening comprehension, could have positive effects reading comprehension. The main aim of the present study was to analyze the effect of a training program focused on four…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
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Puangpunsi, Nualpen – THAITESOL Journal, 2021
Meaningful learning should bring learners to meet their entire goals--both an achievement in academic skills and everyday life skills. This current study focused on the implementation of project-based learning (PBL) in an EFL classroom for young adult learners at a university level. The study aimed at the development of students' performance in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Student Projects, Teaching Methods
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Moon-gun, Ji,; Baek, Seunghyun – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
The current study investigated the potential components that affect second language (L2; English) literacy acquisition and cause-and-effect relationships of those factors to L2 reading comprehension via a structural equation model, with the recruitment of 129 4th-graders learning English as a foreign language. This study consists of two levels of…
Descriptors: Korean, Second Language Learning, Word Recognition, Vocabulary Development
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Bergström, Denise; Norberg, Cathrine; Nordlund, Marie – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
One core aspect of learning a language is developing vocabulary, an endeavor that requires a structured and principled focus in the classroom. As the EFL textbook has a central position in the language learning classroom, it should have an important role to play in structuring vocabulary development. Yet, what guides decisions concerning the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Materials
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Young, Chase; Durham, Patricia; Rasinski, Timothy Victor; Godwin, Amber; Miller, Melinda – Journal of Educational Research, 2021
This sequential explanatory analysis reports on the observed differences in growth on decoding, word knowledge, and reading comprehension between second grade males and females after participating in a readers theater treatment or business as usual instruction. The quantitative results revealed that males made greater gains than females in the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Achievement Gap, Reading Achievement, Theater Arts
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Alqraini, Faisl M.; Paul, Peter V. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2020
Building vocabulary knowledge, especially breadth and depth of word meanings, is a crucial step in assisting students to read and comprehend print independently. A large body of research has documented the low reading achievement levels of a number of Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students. The goal of the present study was to examine the effects…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Instructional Effectiveness
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Chen, Chih-Ming; Li, Ming-Chaun; Lin, Mei-Feng – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
This study is aimed to design a novel vocabulary learning mechanism (VLM) in the previously developed video-annotated learning and reviewing system (VALRS) that allows learners to identify unfamiliar or unknown words when listening to the video and generate personalized input enhancement from English subtitles for vocabulary learning. It is…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Captions, English (Second Language), Listening Comprehension
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Nguyen, Thi Quyen – English Teaching, 2023
This study investigated the effects of processing three types of texts, namely expository texts, narrative texts, and a combination of both known as twin texts, on incidental vocabulary acquisition and retention in L2 learners. College freshmen (N = 109), who were lower to upper intermediate learners of English, were assigned into a control group…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Retention (Psychology)
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Al Roomy, Muhammad; Althewini, Abdulaziz – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
This study examined the effect of an extensive reading online program implemented in a blended learning format to increase students' reading comprehension. The participants were Saudi freshmen students in a medical university, and the data were collected from two sources: pre- and post-test scores and an open-ended questionnaire. The results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Blended Learning, Medical Students
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Lange, Kriss; Matthews, Joshua – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
The capacity to perceive and meaningfully process foreign or second language (L2) words from the aural modality is a fundamentally important aspect of successful L2 listening. Despite this, the relationships between L2 listening and learners' capacity to process aural input at the lexical level has received relatively little research focus. This…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Karbalaei, Alireza; Zare, Amaneh – Teaching English with Technology, 2019
This study aimed to investigate the interaction between L2 readers and the reading text equipped with four different annotations or glosses including text-only, audio-only, text-picture and audio-picture annotations. The participants in the study were selected from four intact classes consisting of 100 students studying English at intermediate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2023
The appendices accompany the full report "Using Bayesian Meta-Analysis to Explore the Components of Early Literacy Interventions. WWC 2023-008," (ED630495), which pilots a new taxonomy developed by early literacy experts and intervention developers as part of a larger effort to develop standard nomenclature for the components of literacy…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Meta Analysis, Early Intervention, Literacy
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Daud, Zarmina; Kazi, Asma Shahid; Kalsoom, Tahira – Pakistan Journal of Distance and Online Learning, 2019
The research, which was taken into consideration, focused on assessing the effectiveness of vocabulary building through Read-Aloud Strategy for Primary level students. The main objective of the study was intended to identify the influence of read-aloud strategy on vocabulary building which is a key to other skills like reading comprehension and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis, Intervention, Language Tests
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Lai, Hongling; Wang, Dianjian; Ou, Xiancai – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This empirical study investigates the effects of different caption modes on the content and vocabulary comprehension by Chinese English learners with different levels of English proficiency. The results show that the full captioned group performed better on content comprehension than the keyword group, while no significant difference was found on…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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