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Direct linkSultan Altalhab; Fatma F. S. Said – ELT Journal, 2024
This qualitative study sets out to understand the beliefs, functions, and practices of using L1 among EFL learners while they learned new L2 vocabulary. Forty-two Saudi male university students were randomly assigned to 21 pairs and asked to complete three reading comprehension tasks. All pair interactions were audio-recorded. Afterward,…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Males
Download full textAltalhab, Sultan – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2023
Although there is robust research on vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs), little is known about the strategies that learners use in pair work. Therefore, this study examines the VLSs employed by 40 Saudi undergraduate students whilst working in pair tasks. This study also investigates whether there is a relationship between using certain…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Learning Strategies, Undergraduate Students, Cooperative Learning
Mohammad Awad Al-Dawoody Abdulaal; Iman El-Nabawi Abdel Wahed Shaalan; Maryumah Heji Alenazi; Wael Matar Alharbi; Naglaa Fathy Mohammad Atia Abuslema – SAGE Open, 2024
Based on a sociocultural theory and a plethora of experiential studies on the efficacy of scaffolding on foreign language learning, the goal of this research article is to examine the effectiveness of diverse types of scaffolding on university students' lexical digesting and reading perception from a sociocultural standpoint. Using the Harvard…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Teacher Role, Peer Relationship, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Alqraini, Faisl M. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2022
Improving reading skills is considered one of education's highest priorities. The present study investigated teachers' knowledge of reading skills instruction in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). A mixed-methods design was used to obtain data that would improve understanding of teachers' knowledge about teaching reading skills to d/Deaf and hard…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Deafness
Suleiman Al Qunayeer, Huda – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
The present study is an attempt to explore the relationship between the breadth (the number of words known) and the depth of vocabulary knowledge (the richness of word knowledge) (the richness of word knowledge), and reading comprehension of EFL learners in an English as a foreign language (EFL) context. Furthermore, it tries to find the effect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Vocabulary, English (Second Language)
Alghamdi, Amani Khalaf H.; Al Ghamdi, Kholoud S.; Kim, Sun Young – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2022
It is of great importance that science educators teach COVID-19 and related pandemics to boost students' scientific literacy. A mixed methods research design (pre-post test instrument [N = 86] and semi-structured interviews [N = 11]--August 2020 to June 2021) evaluated the ability of an intervention (12 h, three-session, 3-day, online workshop) to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Teachers, Knowledge Level, Medicine
Alotaibi, Khalid M. – Online Submission, 2022
Saudi EFL students experience similar difficulties as other language learners do when learning English. One of the most crucial disciplines of foreign language (FL) method study is the employment of reading strategies by speakers of EFL. Students who actively employ their reading comprehension techniques are able to comprehend and remember more of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Reading Skills, Reading Strategies
AlTameemy, Farooq; Daradkeh, Amer; Alhamod, Abdulhameed – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
This study reports the outcomes of research investigating the relationship between two variables; percentage of word knowledge in an academic English text and reading comprehension scores the participants got for the same text. The study was conducted at Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Preparatory Year Deanship, during the first semester…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Correlation, Reader Text Relationship
Bamanger, Ebrahim M.; Gashan, Amani K. – English Language Teaching, 2014
Recent trends in teacher education have focused on exploring teachers' beliefs. Earlier studies have shown the important influence of teachers' beliefs on teaching practices. The present study was conducted to explore the beliefs of Saudi EFL teachers about the significance of teaching English reading strategies. The study aimed also to find the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reading Strategies
Alqunayeer, Huda Sulieman; Zamir, Sadia – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2016
This research study analyzes the target needs of EFL female Saudi students to choose EFL as their specialization. The population of the research is the female students enrolled in Bachelors in English program, at the Department of English Language and Translation, Qassim University Saudi Arabia. Adapting the Hutchinson and Waters model of Needs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Case Studies, Needs Assessment
Baniabdelrahman, Abdallah Ahmad; Al-shumaimeri, Yousif – English Language Teaching, 2014
This study investigated the strategies which first-year Saudi university EFL students used to derive the meaning of unfamiliar words while reading English texts. Using cluster sampling method, participants chosen to be included in the study consisted of six male and six female classes (120 male and 120 female students) of the preparatory year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, English (Second Language), Comprehension
Coombe, Christine A., Ed. – 1998
Papers from the 1997 and 1998 Current Trends in English Language Testing (CTELT) conferences include: "Computer-Based Language Testing: The Call of the Internet" (G. Fulcher); "Uses of the PET (Preliminary English Test) at Sultan Qaboos University" (R. Taylor); "Issues in Foreign and Second Language Academic Listening…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, College Second Language Programs, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
