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Direct linkPan, Dora Jue; Lin, Dan – Language Learning, 2023
In this study, we investigated the direct and indirect associations of different cognitive-linguistic skills and Chinese reading comprehension in Hong Kong kindergarteners. We assessed 179 children's nonverbal IQ, cognitive-linguistic skills, word reading, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension. Results showed significant correlations…
Descriptors: Chinese, Reading Comprehension, Kindergarten, Preschool Children
Fraser, Christie; Pasquarella, Adrian; Geva, Esther; Gottardo, Alexandra; Biemiller, Andrew – Language Learning, 2021
Conjunctions facilitate text cohesion and comprehension by making explicit the logical relationships between ideas in written language. Conjunctions may be challenging for English language learners (ELLs) because of their novel, abstract, and text-connecting role. In this longitudinal study we aimed to clarify the connections among comprehension…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Connected Discourse
Sparks, Richard L.; Patton, Jon; Ganschow, Leonore; Humbach, Nancy – Language Learning, 2012
The study examined whether individual differences in high school first language (L1) reading achievement and print exposure would account for unique variance in second language (L2) written (word decoding, spelling, writing, reading comprehension) and oral (listening/speaking) proficiency after adjusting for the effects of early L1 literacy and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Speech Communication, Spelling
Peer reviewedConnor, Ulla; Read, Charles – Language Learning, 1978
Reports on an experiment that measured passage-dependency in an ESL test. Results suggest that passage-dependency is one measure that can be used to select good reading comprehension tests. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Native Speakers
Peer reviewedHoover, Michael L.; Dwivedi, Veena D. – Language Learning, 1998
Recent advances in cross-language psycholinguistics provide reading researchers with both the models and the tools needed to investigate the syntactic processing of second-language (L2) readers. In this study, 48 first-language and 48 highly fluent L2 French readers read sentences containing constructions that do not exist in English, pre-verbal…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, English, French
Peer reviewedHoriba, Yukie; And Others – Language Learning, 1993
Investigated how English-as-a-Second-Language (L2) readers used structural properties of a text to "fill in the gaps" in their mental representations and compared these with native English readers' recall protocols. L2 readers' structure-preserving recalls were higher than their meaning-preserving protocols. Results suggest that L2 readers used…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Memory, Native Speakers
Peer reviewedJohns, Ann M. – Language Learning, 1985
This study examined the summarizing skills of university students and developed from their protocols a scale for coding replications and distortions of the original. Findings indicate that underprepared students omit more main ideas and include more sentence-level reproductions than mainstreamed students. Data indicated no other significant…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cognitive Ability, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedQian, David D. – Language Learning, 2002
This study was conducted in the context of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) research to conceptually validate the roles of breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge in reading comprehension in academic settings and to empirically evaluate a test measuring three elements of the depth dimension of vocabulary knowledge, including,…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
