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Chin-Wen Chien; Yi-Han Huang – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2024
This study explored the influence of using Curriculum-Based Readers Theater (CBRT) on promoting 12 sixth graders' oceanic knowledge and vocabulary learning in an elementary school in Taiwan. Based on the analysis of both quantitative (oceanic knowledge tests and vocabulary knowledge tests) and qualitative data (interviews, videos, and…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Teaching Methods, Marine Education, Grade 6
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Chou, Mu-Hsuan – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
Purpose: Graded readers can help English language learners to improve their reading ability. Literary texts with simplified language often differ from expository texts for teaching EFL learners. Although reading strategies have been used to facilitate comprehension, how students use strategies to process literary texts is underexplored. The…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Reading Ability, Reading Instruction
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Jo-Chi Hsiao; Jason S. Chang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
During the COVID-19 pandemic, global teachers gained extensive experiences with teaching online courses. To design quality online courses in the post-pandemic era, the impact of the latest technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), must be considered. Investigating how teachers incorporate AI-powered tools and how students perceive learning…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Electronic Learning, English (Second Language)
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Wang, Li-Chih; Liu, Duo; Yum, Yen Na; Chung, Kevin Kien-Hoa; Chu, Szu-Yin; Tai, Pui Lun Alan; Xu, Zhengye; Kuo, Hsu-Chan; Chang, Chih-Ching – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2023
This study aims to compare auditory temporal processing and phonological processing across locations and age levels and to test the direct and indirect effects of auditory temporal and phonological processing on proficiency in Chinese character reading. We recruited 108 typically developing children -- 25 and 24 kindergarteners from Taiwan and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Auditory Perception, Phonological Awareness, Geographic Location
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Tasing Chiu – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
In the late nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries introduced modern education for the blind people in Taiwan and Korea. They developed various tactile reading systems to enhance literacy and provided handicraft training for self-sufficiency. When these regions came under Japanese colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century, the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Blindness, Foreign Countries, Tactile Adaptation
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Chang, Mei-Mei; Lan, Shu-Wen – Open Learning, 2021
This study reports on the use of Moodle as a platform for incorporating the online reciprocal teaching (RT) application into a freshman English Reading course in Taiwan. Data on the 53 students' perceptions and experiences of Moodle-based RT application were collected using a questionnaire, and their actual reading comprehension was measured via a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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Lo, Chih-Cheng; Wen, Hsifu; Lin, Yi-Shuang – SAGE Open, 2021
While the effect of Readers Theater (RT) on English oral reading fluency has been extensively investigated, research on the effect of RT on adolescents' English reading and listening comprehension was scant and yielded different results. This research aimed to explore how RT instruction influenced English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students,…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Reading Instruction, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
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McCollister, Michael – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2019
Taiwan's National Development Council recently announced plans for the country to become bilingual by the year 2030. However, the Council did not lay out a clear road map for how this major accomplishment is to be achieved, and the curriculum presently in place does not seem to meet the challenge. This article will review the current status of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Second Language Programs, Second Language Instruction
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Chang, Anna C.-S.; Renandya, Willy A. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
Narrow reading has not received much attention from researchers regarding its contributions on L2 learners' background knowledge, vocabulary knowledge, and writing styles. This study therefore investigated the effect of narrow reading on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' vocabulary learning. Twelve graded readers were selected and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Recall (Psychology)
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Chin, Mei-Hui – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2019
This study explored whether second-language (L2) less proficient adult learners can become skilled readers by investigating the effect on students' attitudes to strategy use when explicit instruction of metacognitive reading strategies is combined with an extensive reading approach. Studies have shown that proficient learners employ a wider range…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Reading Skills, Student Attitudes
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Lee, Jia-Ying – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2019
This study, an 18-week comparative experiment, examined the effects of instruction in test-taking strategy in English as a foreign language reading class. It involved an experimental group (68 students) taught test-taking strategies and a control group (66 students) that did not receive the instruction. Various means were used to investigate the…
Descriptors: Test Wiseness, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Reading Instruction
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Redmer, Guy – English Teaching Forum, 2019
Most teachers who use textbooks know that they are restrictive by nature. Units jump from topic to topic without recycling much vocabulary. One effective solution to truly developing reading fluency in terms of word recognition may be Narrow Reading (NR)-- that is reading several texts about a single narrow topic. NR may involve reading five short…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Chen, Cheryl Wei-yu – TESOL Journal, 2018
This article describes how creativity is integrated into an English as a foreign language (EFL) reading classroom for a class of adolescent readers in Taiwan. The chosen focal material was a book called "Our Iceberg Is Melting" by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber, and the four language learning units in which creativity was infused were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Technology
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Wang, Hung-chun; Lin, Ming-Fang – TESOL Journal, 2019
This study investigated how a literacy buddy approach may influence the English learning and creative writing of adolescent learners in a rural Taiwanese school. A group of seventh-grade and eighth-grade students took part in a winter camp, wherein they read and wrote picture books collaboratively. Based on the students' feedback, this approach…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Adolescents, Rural Schools
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Hu, Hsien; Tsai, Chih-Yung – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
The present study investigates common word reading dilemmas across 3 word types among children learning English as a foreign language (EFL). It also examines the effectiveness of a new word reading strategy, perceptual diacritics, for facilitating EFL children's word reading dilemmas through an experimental design in which the experimental group…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Sight Method, Reading Instruction
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