Age, Experience and Language and Literacy Skills in English-Arabic Speaking Syrian Refugees
Although age of acquisition (AoA) is frequently used when examining the endpoint of second language (L2) learning, it is rarely used to examine the initial phases of L2 acquisition.
Alexandra Gottardo +5 more
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L2 Acquisition of English Present Perfect Interpretations [PDF]
The present study investigates the role of first language (L1), in our case Cypriot Greek (CG) or Standard Greek (SG), in the second language (L2) acquisition of English present perfect in terms of form and meaning possibilities.
Agouraki, Yoryia, Karpava, Sviatlana
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Reading Errors in Second Language Learners
This study posits that there are divergent positions among scholars regarding the roles of experiential and linguistic factors in reading incompetence among Second Language (L2) readers.
Ifeyinwa Rita Obiegbu
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A theoretical perspective of reading in English second language classrooms
Several language experts have proposed language models that provide a solid foundation for effective second language acquisition. This paper aims to review language theories and explain their relevance to English Second Language (ESL) learning through ...
Sylvia Ithindi
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Exploration of instrumental and integrative motivation for reading English as a second language among second year pre-university students of Government MAO College, Lahore (Pakistan) [PDF]
Since the 1970s work of Gardner and Lambert, studies on language learning motivation have received much consideration in second language research. More recently, studies on reading motivation have also gained much interest. This study was conducted among
Jahan Khan, Tahir +2 more
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LISTEN-READ-DISCUSS (LRD) IN TEACHING SECOND LANGUAGE READING
Reading is one of language skills that should be mastered by the students. In reading the text, readers can find the knowledge and get information from printed text.
Elfa Yusanti
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State of the art review : language testing and assessment (part two). [PDF]
In Part 1 of this two-part review article (Alderson & Banerjee, 2001), we first addressed issues of washback, ethics, politics and standards. After a discussion of trends in testing on a national level and in testing for specific purposes, we surveyed ...
Alderson, J. Charles, Banerjee, Jayanti
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The Interdependence between the Process and the Product of Reading in English and Persian [PDF]
The aim of the present research was twofold. First, to investigate whether Persian reading skills contribute differentially to English reading performance depending upon amount of exposure to the second language.
parviz birjandi
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Language and Reading Progress of Young Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children. [PDF]
We examined the language and reading progress of 336 young DHH children in kindergarten, first and second grades. Trained assessors tested children's language, reading, and spoken and fingerspelled phonological awareness in the fall and spring of the ...
Antia, Shirin D +6 more
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Word-to-text integration components in second language (L2) reading comprehension
Recognition of individual words serves as an initial basis for comprehension of a written text; yet there are complex word-to-text (WTT) integration processes underlying the comprehension. This study focused on two components of WTT integration, that is,
Mona Alshehri, Dongbo Zhang
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