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Effects of the Reading Practice Platform (Readvise) in Developing Self-Regulated Reading Skills of Tertiary Students in L2 Learning

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2022
Reading, as one of the four basic language skills, activates language learning. Tertiary-level students often undermine this opportunity and rarely read anything in addition to their course assignments.
Anait Akopyan, Katrin Saks
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Prior Knowledge on the Contribution of Working Memory to L2 Reading Comprehension [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2020
Working memory is believed to interact with a second language (L2) learning at the cognitive level. The present study sought to explore the impact of L2 readers’ prior knowledge on the contribution of working memory to reading comprehension.
Hamid Allami, Niloofar Yousefi
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of the home literacy environment on the L1 reading frequencies of Thai university students: Implications for the learning of an L2 [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core  

Day/night variations of myeloid and lymphoid cell subsets in the murine inguinal lymph node

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
The circadian system is involved in the temporal regulation of the immune system. Our study reveals that two innate immune populations, NKT cells and neutrophils, predominate at the beginning of the day in healthy mice, highlighting how the time of day influences immune responses.
Paula M. Wagner   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metformin promotes mitochondrial integrity through AMPK‐signaling in Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Metformin mediates mitochondrial quality control in Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) fibroblasts carrying mtDNA mutations. At therapeutic levels, metformin activates AMPK signaling to restore mitochondrial dynamics by promoting fusion and restraining fission, while preserving mitochondrial mass, enhancing autophagy/mitophagy and biogenesis ...
Chatnapa Panusatid   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

L2 pronunciation quality in read and spontaneous speech

open access: yes6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000), 2000
Contains fulltext : 76192.pdf (author's version ) (Open Access)
Strik, H.   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Developing a creative foreign language reader: in search of a theoretical approach and didactic techniques [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core  

Tumor‐stromal crosstalk and macrophage enrichment are associated with chemotherapy response in bladder cancer

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Chemoresistance in bladder cancer: Macrophage recruitment associated with CXCL1, CXCL5 and CXCL8 expression is characteristic of Gemcitabine/Cisplatin (Gem/Cis) Non‐Responder tumors (right side) while Responder tumors did not show substantial tumor‐stromal crosstalk (left side). All biological icons are attributed to Bioicons: carcinoma, cancerous‐cell‐
Sophie Leypold   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Learning to read in English: Comparing monolingual English and bilingual Zulu-English Grade 3 learners

open access: yesSouth 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
doaj   +1 more source

Transfer of reading attitude from L1 to L2 among Iranian EFL learners with reference to gender and language proficiency [PDF]

open access: yesTeaching 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
doaj   +1 more source

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