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Taguchi, Etsuo; Melhem, Linley; Kawaguchi, Toshiko – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2016
Reading fluency is a critical component of reading proficiency in both the L1 and L2. It lays a foundation on which readers build their reading skills to become strategic and versatile in using a variety of cognitive and metacognitive strategies of reading. In this paper we propose Assisted Reading as a flexible method for developing reading…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Fluency, Reading Skills, Second Language Instruction
Taguchi, Etsuo; Gorsuch, Greta; Takayasu-Maass, Miyoko; Snipp, Kirsten – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2012
Reading fluency has attracted the attention of reading researchers and educators since the early 1970s and has become a priority issue in English as a first language (L1) settings. It has also become a critical issue in English as a second or foreign language (L2) settings because the lack of fluency is considered a major obstacle to developing…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Program Implementation, Metacognition