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Download full textChristopher Nicklin – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2021
In this study, an instrument for measuring proper name (PN) familiarity was developed for a psycholinguistic experiment investigating the effect of PNs on Japanese university students' English reading fluency. Familiarity has previously been operationalized in disparate ways, producing contradictory results. Furthermore, authors of previous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Brooks, Gavin; Clenton, Jon; Fraser, Simon – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This exploratory study represents an attempt to investigate the factors that may affect the reading comprehension abilities of English as an additional language (EAL) learners. For this study, we examined a participant group of 31 (25 EAL and 6 first language English) learners studying at an international school in Japan. We assessed the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Direct linkWelty, Yumiko Tanaka; Menn, Lise; Oishi, Noriko – Topics in Language Disorders, 2014
Japan has been considered dyslexia-free because of the nature of the orthography, which consists of the visually simple kana syllabary and some thousands of visually complex, logographic kanji characters. It is true that few children struggle with learning kana, which provide consistent mappings between symbols and their pronunciation. Indeed,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Orthographic Symbols, Pronunciation
