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Direct linkYanhui Wang – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2024
In recent years, China has accelerated the process of internationalization and made more and more achievements in transnational communication and cooperation. English learning is very important for contemporary college students. And English reading is an important means to acquire English language knowledge, understand external information and…
Descriptors: Algorithms, College Students, English (Second Language), Reading Ability
Chunbao Huang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Testing reading has always been indispensable in language tests. The present study aims to evaluate three parallel reading tests from the National College English Test Band Four (CET-4) in June 2021 in terms of reading ability orientations, text readability and its correlations with reading performances. The quantitative analysis reveals: (1) in…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, English (Second Language), Language Tests
Download full textHe, Ping – English Language Teaching, 2018
Relevance Theory from the perspective of cognitive psychology argues that human communication is an ostensive-inferential process, and emphasizes the function of the optimal relevance for communication. In this sense, reading comprehension could be considered as a kind of communication in which the writer manifests his/her communication intention…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Jin, Li – Language Learning & Technology, 2013
Previous research (e.g., Belz & Thorne, 2006; Ware & O'Dowd, 2008) has discovered that language learning can be afforded through intercultural telecollaboration. From a sociocultural theoretical perspective, the current study investigated the language development outcomes and process in a 10-week Sino-American telecollaborative project…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning
Jiang, Xiangying – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2012
This study investigated the effects of a 16-week reading instruction program with discourse structure graphic organizers (DSGOs) on the development of English reading comprehension among college-level English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. A total of 340 first and third semester students of non-English majors at a Chinese university…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Reading Comprehension, Reading Ability, Reading Instruction
Meng, Fanshao – English Language Teaching, 2009
A good reading competence is a necessity for those studying English for academic and occupational purposes. Based on the results of previous research, theory and practice on L2 Extensive Reading, this paper analyses current situation for teaching and learning reading in our Chinese universities and proposes practical applications of extensive…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, English (Second Language), English Instruction, Reading Instruction
