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Hong Liu – SAGE Open, 2023
This paper presents the results of a retrospective study that investigates the cognitive effects of learning a foreign language in late adulthood. The learner group, consisting of 21 L1 Chinese speakers who have been learning to read Arabic for 2 years and 4 months, were compared to the matched group on their performance on a series of cognitive…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Older Adults, Cognitive Processes
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Zhihong Xu; Kausalai Wijekumar; Qing Wang; Robin Irey; Hua Liang – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Underdeveloped reading comprehension skills can limit academic success; a particular challenge for English language learners (ELLs). The current study investigated whether a web-based text structure strategy, delivered via the Intelligent Tutoring of Structure Strategy (ITSS) program to adult Chinese ELLs, improved students' use of reading…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Reading Instruction
Zimu Cheng – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Parent-Child Reading Program (PRP) was an intervention program designed by Ms. Dai, who was a Chinese teacher at Future School in China, to promote reading literacy among elementary students. Program participants included the teacher in the PRP (Ms. Dai) and the parents of students who participated in the program. The goal of this program was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Participation, Reading Programs