Cogent Education, 2016 The general purpose of the current study was to clarify the role and estimate the correlation of specific cognitive abilities with Second Language (L2) reading achievement of English Foreign Language (EFL) university students.
Khalil Motallebzadeh +1 more
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Second Language Reading and the Role of Grammar
Working Papers in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, 2015 The paper reviews research on second language (L2) reading, focusing on the various factors involved, i.e., orthography, vocabulary, grammar, background knowledge, and metacognitive strategies.
Jookyoung Jung
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Reading in Language Introductory Program Classrooms in Sweden
Languages, 2022 The ability to read is important for studies, work and social life, and therefore, reading needs to be central in all school subjects. The purpose of this article is to shed light on the factors that either facilitate or limit second-language students in
Erika Bomström Aho
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A Span-Extraction Dataset for Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension
, 2019 Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has become enormously popular recently and has attracted a lot of attention. However, the existing reading comprehension datasets are mostly in English. In this paper, we introduce a Span-Extraction dataset for Chinese
Che, Wanxiang +7 more
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Effects of proficiency and age of language acquisition on working memory performance in bilinguals [PDF]
, 2010 This study examined language proficiency and age of language acquisition influences on working memory performance in bilinguals. Bilingual subjects were administered reading span task in parallel versions for their first and second language.
Milin Petar +2 more
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Functional preference of the left inferior parietal lobule to second language reading
NeuroImage, 2023 Additional neural substance for reading in a second language has been reported by prior studies. However, to date, there has been little investigation into whether and how the brain's adaptation to a second language is induced by specific linguistic ...
Jia Zhang +9 more
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Issues in Teaching Second Language Reading [PDF]
, 1998 Look through the window of any second or foreign language (L2) reading classroom and, invariably, you will see teacher and students seated with books open in front of them.
Bamford, Julian, Day, Richard R.
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Second Language Reading and the Role of Grammar
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2009 The paper reviews research on second language (L2) reading, focusing on the various factors involved, i.e., orthography, vocabulary, grammar, background knowledge, and metacognitive strategies.
Jookyoung Jung
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A Preliminary Study on Why Second Language Learners Accept Ungrammatical Sentences: Its Theoretical Implications [PDF]
, 2018 Why do second language learners sometimes accept ungrammatical sentences in the target language? In the present study, we focus on Japanese-speaking learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and investigate whether such “grammatical illusion ...
YAMADA, Toshiyuki
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A comparison study of Quick60 and reading recovery instruction : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Educational Psychology at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2016 New Zealand has a national system of early reading intervention called Reading Recovery. This intervention is available to children after a year at school if they are seriously underachieving in reading.
MacDougall, Bridget Alexandra
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