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Dukhayel Aldukhayel – SAGE Open, 2023
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a rich repertoire of meaningful, relevant comments posted on social media sites can facilitate or increase L2 listeners' comprehension of videos. The study utilized a quasi-experimental design with an experimental group (n = 29) that watched two YouTube videos and read comments, as well as a…
Descriptors: Social Media, Second Language Learning, Listening Comprehension, Video Technology
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Mohamed Sayed Abdellatif; Mohammed A. Alshehri; Hamoud A. Alshehri; Waheed Elsayed Hafez; Mona G. Gafar; Ali Lamouchi – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
With the growing prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) in educational settings, this research aimed to understand how AI-based assessments affect EFL learners beyond just language proficiency. Therefore, this study explored the impacts of integrating AI-driven listening exams on foreign language learners' mindsets, self-competence,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Artificial Intelligence
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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)
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Al-khresheh, Mohammad H.; Al Basheer Ben Ali, Rim – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
Metacognitive awareness of reading strategy has a significant impact on language learning. It addresses how students organize context-based interactions and how they may employ reading comprehension strategies. Saudi students of English still face reading comprehension issues that significantly affect their overall language learning. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Reading Strategies, English (Second Language)
Omar A. Alshikhi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) represent between 5% and 10% of the total number of students in public schools in Saudi Arabia (Abu Nayyan, 2015). Further, 80-90% of students with SLD exhibit reading difficulties including difficulties in reading comprehension (Mercer & Pullen, 2009). Although there is a large number of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulties
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Elsayed Abdalla Muhammad Ahmed; Hammad Ali M. Alshammari – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This paper explores the impact of using Virginia Woolf's novel "To The Lighthouse" as a literary text in enhancing reading skills among second and foreign language learners through adopting Constructivist Learning Theory (CLT) as underpinning framework. CLT emphasizes the active role of learners in constructing their own understanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Novels, Reading Skills, English (Second Language)
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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
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Students majoring in translation at the College of Languages and Translation take a stylistics course (3 hours per week) in the 5th semester of the translation program. The course aims to introduce students to the stylistic features of different genres in English such as journalese, advertisements, commercial, scientific, and legal texts. The…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English Language Learners, Language Styles, Writing (Composition)
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Bothina S. M. Abdelshaheed – SAGE Open, 2023
Reading comprehension is a basic skill that influences the outcomes of language learning. The role played by using different cognitive organizers and collaboration as well in the improvement of reading comprehension of academic texts has been a subject of recent literature. Hence, this study employed the experimental 2 × 2 factorial design to…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Cooperative Learning
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Alfarwan, Salah – Reading Psychology, 2021
This research addressed some current issues in L2 reading strategy research (the nature of any gender effect, and the use of multiple data gathering instruments) as well as an important problem at tertiary level in Saudi Arabia (low English reading proficiency). It examined which reading strategies were most widely reported by 120 Saudi EFL…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Gutiérrez-Colón, Mar; Frumuselu, Anca Daniela; Curell, Hortènsia – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) is a fast-developing field that is constantly growing and evolving in education. There is a lack of publications focusing on implementation studies of MALL as a means to enhance second language/foreign language (L2) reading comprehension. Building on Burston's (2013). Mobile-Assisted Language Learning: a…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Program Implementation
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Ali Abbas Falah Alzubi – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The sources of knowledge have diversified and increased due to the widespread use of the Internet and smartphones. However, this diversity requires learners to know how to deal with and obtain knowledge and the extent of their credibility and usefulness. Subsequently, they must learn language learning strategies, including Memory Strategies (MSs)…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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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)
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Alzaidi, Sarah Abdulgani; Althaqafi, Abeer Sultan – Journal of Education and Learning, 2022
This research study explored EFL teachers' instructional practices (e.g., adaptation, selection, elaboration, and simplification) in using authentic texts for teaching reading comprehension. In fact, a considerable amount of research has been devoted to investigate the use of authentic texts in teaching reading comprehension. However, there is an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
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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
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