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Li, Jia – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2010
A substantial amount of literature regarding first language (L1) acquisition has shown that reading for meaning significantly contributes to vocabulary expansion and strongly relates to overall academic success. Research in the English as a Second Language (ESL) context, however, has presented mixed results, in particular for recent immigrant…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Computer Assisted Instruction, Word Recognition, Monolingualism
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Kuo, Ben C. H.; Roysircar, Gargi – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2004
In a sample of 506 Chinese adolescents living in Canada from 3 cohort groups, age at the time of arrival in Canada, length of stay in Canada, socioeconomic status, and English reading ability predicted acculturation. The results of the study discussed in this article showed English reading ability and socioeconomic status predicted acculturative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acculturation, Social Class, Socioeconomic Status