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Direct linkLi, Miao; Chan, Jessica; Kirby, John R. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2023
Summary writing is an important tactic for learning from text and the summaries provide information on students' comprehension and learning processes. We investigated the nature of the summaries produced by bilingual adolescents, and whether their summaries were related to their reading abilities in their first and second languages. In each…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, Bilingual Students, Reading Difficulties, Decoding (Reading)
Li, Miao; Kirby, John R.; Geva, Esther; Koh, Poh Wee; Zhang, Huan – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
This study examined (a) the identification of various reading groups across languages in Chinese (L1) adolescents learning English as a second language (ESL), in terms of their word-reading and reading comprehension skills, (b) overlap in reading group membership across languages, and (c) the performance of the various reading groups on…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Li, Miao; Kirby, John R. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2014
This study explored characteristics of reading comprehension difficulties among Chinese students learning English as a second language (ESL). Two hundred forty-six Grade 8 English-immersion students in China were administered a battery of reading-related and reading comprehension tests. Three groups of comprehenders matched on age, nonverbal…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Adolescents, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Li, Miao; Kirby, John R. – Applied Linguistics, 2015
This study explored the relationship between two dimensions of vocabulary knowledge, that is, breadth of vocabulary (the number of words known) and depth of vocabulary (the richness of word knowledge), and their effects on different aspects of English reading in Chinese high school students learning English as a second language. Two hundred and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Knowledge Level, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Bowers, Peter N.; Kirby, John R.; Deacon, S. Helene – Review of Educational Research, 2010
The authors reviewed all peer-reviewed studies with participants from preschool to Grade 8 for this meta-analysis of morphological interventions. They identified 22 applicable studies. Instructional effects (Cohen's d) were averaged by linguistic outcome categories (morphological sublexical, non-morphological sublexical, lexical, and supralexical)…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Literacy, Meta Analysis, Peer Evaluation
