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Second Language Reading: Reading Ability or Language Proficiency?
Applied Linguistics, 1991Sur un echantillon compose d'etudiants de 3 eme , 1 ere , 3 eme annee du superieur, l'A. etudie l'incidence des competences en langue maternelle sur la comprehension ecrite de sujets d'origine anglaise etudiant l'espagnol et de sujets d'origine hispanique etudiant l ...
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Second Language Reading Acquisition
2015Literacy is a lifelong, context-bound set of practices that can vary with time, place, and an individual's needs. One can thus speak of multiple literacies and the importance of language policies that foster cultural diversity. Research has also shown the functional literacy practices via which individuals are socialized into various institutions to ...
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Second language reading in Persian
2020In this chapter we align with the view that second language (L2) reading is at its core a linguistic process and that the reading challenges of literate college-level novice readers of Persian as a second language have more to do with language ability rather than general reading abilities.
Nahal Akbari, Ali Reza Abasi
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Readings in Second Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition
2006The selected contributions of this volume focus on various issues related to second language pedagogy and second language acquisition in the Japanese context. Part I covers such topics as discourse pragmatics and cross-cultural pragmatics in language teaching; the instruction of conversation through training in story telling skills; task activities as ...
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2005
For second language learners, readingmay be both ameans to the end of acquiring the language, as a major source of comprehensible input, and an end in itself, as the skill thatmany serious learnersmost need to employ.Many students of English as aForeign Language (EFL), for example, rarely speak the language in their day-to-day lives but mayneed to read
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For second language learners, readingmay be both ameans to the end of acquiring the language, as a major source of comprehensible input, and an end in itself, as the skill thatmany serious learnersmost need to employ.Many students of English as aForeign Language (EFL), for example, rarely speak the language in their day-to-day lives but mayneed to read
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Second language reading in fluent bilinguals
Applied Psycholinguistics, 1982ABSTRACTMany bilinguals, who are fluent second language users in normal commmunicative situations, nevertheless read more slowly in that language. The present study examines whether this performance difference is specific to reading or whether its occurrence is accompanied by similar differences in the auditory modality.
Micheline Favreau, Norman S. Segalowitz
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2008
This volume, through a detailed treatment of the cognitive processes that support reading, explains how reading really works. It offers a thorough overview of important and current research, including first language research, which is not often found in second language acquisition (SLA) publications.
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This volume, through a detailed treatment of the cognitive processes that support reading, explains how reading really works. It offers a thorough overview of important and current research, including first language research, which is not often found in second language acquisition (SLA) publications.
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Second Language Reading: Teaching Decoding Skills
Foreign Language Annals, 1975ABSTRACT The teaching of the reading skill has been neglected in foreign language methodology due to inadequate definition of the reading task. Many language activities that purport to deal with reading actually emphasize productive skill outcomes and fail to develop the decoding aspect of the reading process.
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Research on Reading a Second Language
Journal of Reading Behavior, 1974The experimental research on reading a second language concerns three questions: 1) Should initial reading be taught in the child's first language or in the second language when the second is the language of instruction? 2) What, other than “inadequate grasp of the language,” accounts for slower reading speed and lowered comprehension when reading a ...
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Insights into Second Language Reading
2005This critical volume, provides an in-depth analysis of second language reading's multiple dimensions. The paperback edition describes the complexity of reading and explains how reading differs in a first and second language. The book is broad in scope, covering all major aspects of the reading process and synthesizing all current reading research. The
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