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Download full textLiu, Jiren; Zhang, Jianying – English Language Teaching, 2018
Extensive reading has been continuously studied as a promising instructional method for improving students' language proficiency, including reading proficiency, vocabulary acquisition, and grammar awareness. The present study is a meta-analysis, which synthesized the data of 21 empirical studies (N = 1268). It was designed to explore whether…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Meta Analysis, Reading Programs, Language Proficiency
Boakye, Naomi A. N. Y. – English Language Teaching, 2017
There have been a number of studies on reading interventions to improve students' reading proficiency, yet the majority of these interventions are undertaken with the assumption that students' reading challenges are obvious and generic in nature. The interventions do not take into consideration the diversity in students' reading backgrounds and…
Descriptors: Profiles, Intervention, Reading Programs, Sociology
Amirkhiz, Seyed Yasin Yazdi; Ajideh, Parviz – English Language Teaching, 2008
This study aims to translate tenets of social constructivism into practice via a scaffolded modality of learning. It is hypothesized that hermeneutical nature of passage interpretation could create "affordances", Van Lier's (2000) term, or "interactional opportunities" which are psycholinguistically and developmentally valuable…
Descriptors: Interaction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Reading Programs, Learning Activities
