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Sparks, Richard; Patton, Jon; Luebbers, Julie – Hispania, 2018
The Simple View of Reading (SVR) model posits that reading is the product of word decoding and language comprehension and that oral language (listening) comprehension is the best predictor of reading comprehension once word-decoding skill has been established. The SVR model also proposes that there are good readers and three types of poor…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Reading Processes, Listening Comprehension, Oral Language
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Sparks, Richard L.; Luebbers, Julie; Castañeda, Martha E. – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
Foreign language educators have developed measures to assess the proficiency of U.S. high school learners. Most have compared language learners to clearly defined criteria for proficiency in the language (criterion-referenced assessment) or to the performance of other monolingual English speakers (norm-referenced assessment). In this study, the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Reading Comprehension, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
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Afsharrad, Mohammad; Sadeghi Benis, Aram Reza – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
The present study aims at finding the differences between bilingual and monolingual learners across gender in the use of cognitive, metacognitive, and total reading strategies, as well as reading comprehension ability. To this end, 50 Persian-Turkish bilinguals and 36 Persian monolinguals participated in the study. A standard test of reading…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Bilingualism, Monolingualism, English
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Sparks, Richard L. – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
The simple view of reading (SVR) model proposes that reading comprehension is the product of word decoding and language comprehension, and that both components make independent contributions to reading skill (Gough & Tunmer, 1986). The model posits that there are good readers and three types of poor readers--dyslexic, hyperlexic, and garden…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Profiles, Spanish
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Elgort, Irina – Language Testing, 2013
This study examines the development and evaluation of a bilingual Vocabulary Size Test (VST, Nation, 2006). A bilingual (English-Russian) test was developed and administered to 121 intermediate proficiency EFL learners (native speakers of Russian), alongside the original monolingual (English-only) version of the test. A comparison of the bilingual…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Vocabulary, Language Tests, English
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ter Kuile, Hagar; Veldhuis, Michiel; van Veen, Suzanne C.; Wicherts, Jelte M. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
An increasing number of schools offer bilingual programs, where lessons are taught in more than one language. Several theories state that bilinguals have greater metalinguistic awareness than monolinguals. We investigated whether this greater metalinguistic awareness is also related to an increased ability to understand an unknown language. To…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Metalinguistics, Bilingual Education, Language Tests