Lexicality, frequency and stress assignment effects in bilingual children reading Italian as a second language [PDF]
, 2016 In Italian, developing readers exhibit lexicality and frequency effects, and are sensitive to the distributional properties of the language. But how do bilingual children with different ages of first L2 (Italian) exposure and L2 vocabulary sizes read L2 ...
Bellocchi, S. +2 more
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South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2011 The acquisition of reading skills of 100 monolingual English and 100 bilingual Zulu-English third-grade learners was investigated by measuring their phonological- and reading skills.
Diana Soares De Sousa
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Transfer of reading attitude from L1 to L2 among Iranian EFL learners with reference to gender and language proficiency [PDF]
Teaching English Language, 2011 This study aims at investigating the threshold hypothesis in relation to the transfer of reading attitude from L1 to L2 among Iranian EFL learners with reference to gender and language proficiency.
Mohammad Keshavarz +1 more
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Reading Strategy Use of Low- and High-Proficiency Learners and the Effect of Reading Instruction [PDF]
, 2014 Research suggests that reading strategy usage is influential on L2 reading proficiency. Considering this, the LEC English Department decided to examine students’ reading strategies as a part of its much larger curricular review.
Prichard, Caleb
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The processing of ambiguous sentences by first and second language learners of English [PDF]
, 2002 This study compares the way English-speaking children and adult second language learners of English resolve relative clause attachment ambiguities in sentences such as The dean liked the secretary of the professor who was reading a letter.
Felser, Claudia +3 more
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Education SciencesIn the context of L2 academic reading, teachers tend to use a variety of question formats to assess students’ reading comprehension. Studies have revealed that not only question formats but also L2 language proficiency might affect how students use ...
Ray J. T. Liao, Kwangmin Lee
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Second Language Reading Research and Instruction: Crossing the Boundaries
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2010 Second language (L2) reading serves dual roles in L2 learning – both as a literacy skill for comprehension and as a source of L2 input (Eskey, 2005; Grabe, 1991).
Jookyoung Jung
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The early phase of /ɹ/ production development in adult Japanese learners of English [PDF]
, 2014 Although previous research indicates that Japanese speakers’ second-language (L2) perception and production of English /ɹ/ may improve with increased L2 experience, relatively little is known about the fine phonetic details of their /ɹ/ productions ...
Munro, M.J., Saito, Kazuya
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Second Language Reading Research and Instruction: Crossing the Boundaries
Working Papers in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, 2015 Second language (L2) reading serves dual roles in L2 learning – both as a literacy skill for comprehension and as a source of L2 input (Eskey, 2005; Grabe, 1991).
Jookyoung Jung
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Eye Movement Patterns in Natural Reading: A Comparison of Monolingual and Bilingual Reading of a Novel. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 This paper presents a corpus of sentence level eye movement parameters for unbalanced bilingual first language (L1) and second-language (L2) reading and monolingual reading of a complete novel (56 000 words). We present important sentence-level basic eye
Uschi Cop, Denis Drieghe, Wouter Duyck
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