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TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 2035-2060, December 2025.Abstract This study examined if gaze‐contingent textual enhancement could be used as an interactive focus‐on‐form device to promote learning of second language (L2) collocations from computer‐mediated reading tasks. Seventy‐five Chinese ESL users read three English texts that contained twelve target collocations, presented under one of three conditions:
Jookyoung Jung +5 more
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Aptitude complexes: Expanding our view of language aptitude
The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 4, Page 775-799, Winter 2025.Abstract In second language (L2) research, aptitude is typically viewed as a multicomponential, cognitive construct. Yet we know that L2 learning is influenced by multiple learner individual differences (IDs) besides cognitive abilities and that these IDs interact.
Lani Freeborn +2 more
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Language Acquisition and English Achievement at Grade Four Senior High School [PDF]
Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2018 This study aimed to explore the relationship between language acquisition and grade four senior high school (G4SHS) students’ achievement in English as a foreign language (EFL).
Mostafa Younesi +2 more
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DIDACTIC APPROACHES TO PRECLINICAL E-TESTING FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS [PDF]
Journal of IMABThere are three specific and key unknowns to e-testing didactics (e-testing) that distinguish it from traditional test didactics and must be addressed in the preparation of electronic tests: (1) does it test the one it needs to test (security), (2) does ...
Ilina Doykova
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Applied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 39, Issue 6, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT When searching for information online, learners often encounter contradictions. In two experiments, we compared the effect of reading two texts containing conflicting theories on the same phenomenon. Either no explanation for the conflict (unresolved‐conflict group) or an explanation for the conflict in the second text was provided either ...
Anne Schüler +2 more
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Strategic Processing and Reading Comprehension: Contributions for the ESP Teaching
The ESPecialist: Research in Language for Specific Purposes, 2014 The objective of the study was to verify reading comprehension in English and strategic processing among 13 graduate students in health-related courses. Multiple-choice cloze test and reading protocols were used for data collection.
Fernanda Goulart Ritti Dias +1 more
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Extensive reading in a second language : literature review and pedagogical implications [PDF]
, 2015 textThis Report explores the importance of including extensive reading (ER) program in English as a second language (ESL) or English as a foreign language (EFL) context.
Hong, Sunju
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TriviaQA: A Large Scale Distantly Supervised Challenge Dataset for Reading Comprehension
, 2017 We present TriviaQA, a challenging reading comprehension dataset containing over 650K question-answer-evidence triples. TriviaQA includes 95K question-answer pairs authored by trivia enthusiasts and independently gathered evidence documents, six per ...
Choi, Eunsol +3 more
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Contribution of executive function to different levels of reading comprehension
Journal of Research in Reading, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 335-354, November 2025.Background Executive function (EF) is significantly associated with reading comprehension outcomes, yet the interaction between EF and critical language skills (including vocabulary, morphological awareness (MA) and syntactic knowledge), across these levels of reading comprehension (literal, inferential and evaluative comprehension) has rarely been ...
Cathy On‐Ying Hung +2 more
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The Use of Cloze Test to Determine The Proficiency Level of ESL Students
Asian Journal of Assessment in Teaching and Learning, 2011 A well-constructed language test will yield useful information for admission, student placement, course evaluation and other concerns in language teaching, depending on the test objectives. This paper describes the development of a viable test instrument
Jeanette Lim, Tunku Mohani Tunku Mohtar
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