Impact of the home literacy environment on the L1 reading frequencies of Thai university students: Implications for the learning of an L2 [PDF]
, 2007 In the Information Age, reading is a critical skill for accessing information and updating skills. However, reluctant readership in L1 may prevent many societies from fully participating in the global community. This reluctance to read may also slow the
Ferriman, Nicholas
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L1 explicit instruction can improve L2 online and offline performance [PDF]
, 2017 This study investigated the effectiveness of providing L1 explicit information (EI) with practice for making more accurate and faster interpretations of L2 French Imparfait (IMP). Two treatments were investigated: (a) “L2-only,” providing EI about the L2
Marsden, Emma, McManus, Kevin
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Behavioral studies on language processing rely on the eye-mind assumption, which states that the time spent looking at text is an index of the time spent processing it.
Manuel F. Pulido
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THE ROLE OF LEXICAL FREQUENCY IN MODERATING THE EFFECT OF GRAMMAR KNOWLEDGE ON L2 READING OUTCOMES
TEFLIN Journal, 2018 Sentence-level grammar skills are of the important foundations in the mastery of reading skills in second language (L2). Previous studies showed inconclusive findings about the effect of grammar knowledge on L2 reading.
Sahiruddin Sahiruddin
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Music-reading expertise modulates the visual span for English letters but not Chinese characters. [PDF]
, 2019 Recent research has suggested that the visual span in stimulus identification can be enlarged through perceptual learning. Since both English and music reading involve left-to-right sequential symbol processing, music-reading experience may enhance ...
Chung, Susana TL +2 more
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A Comparative Study of Factors Contributing to Reading Comprehension in L2 (English) Among Iranian and Indian Students [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Comparative Education, 2019 Few studies have ever been conducted to find out degree of contribution of L1 reading ability and L2 general linguistic proficiency to L2 reading regarding the context of learning. Two groups of students from the Indian ESL (English as a Second Language)
Mojtaba Maghsoudi +2 more
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Education SciencesOur understanding of assessing L2 reading has significantly expanded in recent years, including both theoretical and practical aspects. There is a growing consensus that reading comprehension involves multiple skills and subskills.
Ali Kushki, Hossein Nassaji
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Studies in English Language and Education, 2022 Previous research has shown a range of benefits of extensive reading for second or foreign language (L2) learning, as well as learners’ positive attitudes towards extensive reading.
Nhung Cam Nguyen
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Relating adolescents’ second language reading attitudes, self efficacy for reading, and reading ability in a non-supportive ESL setting [PDF]
, 2011 The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships among second language reading attitudes, reading self-efficacy, and reading ability, as well as gender differences across the variables among adolescents in a setting that does not foster English
Murad Sani, Azlina, Zain, Zaizati
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Developing a creative foreign language reader: in search of a theoretical approach and didactic techniques [PDF]
, 2011 The paper discusses different conceptions of creativity in relation to reading in a FL. It looks at psycholinguistic approaches that view creativity as a mentalistic individual creative thought.
Kusiak, Monika
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