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Mitsue Tabata-Sandom; Yoko Ikeda – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This study examines how the perceptions that twelve teachers of Japanese as a second language (L2) had of extensive reading (ER) changed following 10 months of online English ER. Interviews provided much of the study data, supported by pre-project and post-project questionnaires. The participants' pre-project and post-project vocabulary sizes and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Japanese, Second Language Instruction
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Mintra Puripunyavanich; Rob Waring – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This study reports how extensive reading (ER) teachers implemented ER and used reading materials at institutions in formal educational systems in Japan, Mongolia, Thailand, and Vietnam. 259 participants completed an online questionnaire. The results revealed that ER was mainly required and done online in Japan and Mongolia while it was optional…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials, Cultural Differences
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Hitoshi Mikami; Tadashi Shiozawa – SAGE Open, 2023
This study addresses the question of whether the use of problematic strategies is a threat to the effectiveness of a specific form of extensive reading. Extensive reading has been considered an effective way to receive comprehensible input in second language learning, and its benefits on the development of second language reading skills have been…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Cheating, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Goto, Takaaki – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2021
The purpose of this research is to present how university students' Test of English for International Communication Institutional Program (TOEIC IP) scores change after taking a 20-minute English extensive reading class during one semester. The research question was, "Is there a significant difference between the TOEIC IP scores from a…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Instruction
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Kazuma Fujii – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
Extensive Reading (ER) emerges as a promising approach for acquiring a foreign language, allowing for a large amount of language exposure. However, the influence of supplementary activities within ER programs has yet to be thoroughly investigated, despite previous studies suggesting their potential effectiveness. This research investigated the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Torrin R. Shimono – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2023
The effects of extensive, timed, and repeated oral reading on 101 lower-intermediate Japanese university L2 English learners' reading rates and comprehension were investigated over one academic year. The participants were divided into four quasiexperimental groups: (a) Group 1 did extensive, timed, and repeated oral reading with prosody and…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Oral Reading
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Yuya Arai – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
In second or foreign language (L2) extensive reading (ER) studies, learners have been encouraged to read easy books despite the lack of consensus concerning how to define book difficulty. In light of previous studies reporting that book difficulty can play an important role in learners' affect in ER (e.g., Bahmani & Farvardin, 2017; Chiang,…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Time, Difficulty Level, Student Attitudes
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Prichard, Caleb; Atkins, Andrew – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Research suggests that second language (L2) readers often lack strategic competence in dealing with unknown lexica. This mixed methods study of Japanese readers of English used eye tracking and other methods to empirically examine the use and efficacy of vocabulary coping strategies, including dictionary use, inferring meaning from context, and…
Descriptors: Coping, Eye Movements, Context Effect, Reading Processes
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Sachi Oshima – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a multimodal approach in which an additional camera was used to deliver online explicit reading strategy instruction. Targeting 20 Japanese beginner-level EFL college students taking online Zoom lessons during one academic semester, two research questions were investigated: (a) To what…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Multimedia Materials, Student Attitudes
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Kesici, Ayse Elitok; Güvercin, Derya; Küçükakça, Hizir – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2021
In this study, fundamental researches on "metacognition" in Turkey, Japan and Singapore between the years of 2010 and 2020 were examined and conclusions were made in terms of comparative education. For this purpose, the data of the research was collected by document scanning method and the data were analyzed using the document review…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Cultural Differences, Problem Solving
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Prichard, Caleb; Atkins, Andrew – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2021
Studies have shown that vocabulary can be acquired in second language reading, but researchers have not explicitly examined which vocabulary coping strategies lead to higher rates of vocabulary learning. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the effect of various strategies using eye tracking and navigation tracking. The strategies…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Coping, Incidental Learning, Eye Movements
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Prichard, Caleb; Atkins, Andrew – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2019
Selective attention to task-relevant content is an essential strategy for readers. There is evidence that proficient readers more often consider their purpose and focus attention selectively. However, eye tracking research has revealed several limitations with survey data on reading strategies, and few second language (L2) reading studies have…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Attention, Second Language Learning, Eye Movements
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Prichard, Caleb; Atkins, Andrew – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2020
Researching from multiple-documents online is an essential activity, but it has generally been overlooked by second language (L2) educators. This study uses navigation tracking, eye tracking, a post-reading recall task, and interviews to examine the degree to which Japanese L2 readers maintain task awareness when researching online. Key reading…
Descriptors: Student Research, Second Language Learning, Attention, Reading
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Yoshikawa, Lisa; Leung, Chi Yui – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2020
Low-proficient L2 readers, especially, struggle for literal understanding of the text and for appropriately using reading strategy (RS). We examined whether and how the development of L2- English reading comprehension skills is associated with the frequency and kinds of L2 RS use. Fifty Japanese learners of English completed a reading…
Descriptors: Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Stephens, Meredith – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2016
In this response to Sakurai, Meredith Stephens agrees that Sakurai (2015) raises an important issue of which native English speaking teachers may be unaware; Japanese learners of English typically translate into Japanese while reading English. Sakurai explained, "It is speculated that Japanese students naturally translate English into…
Descriptors: Translation, Reader Response, Reading Rate, Reading Fluency
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