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Direct linkHong Zhang; Rui Yuan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
The teaching of critical thinking (CT) has become an important requirement in many English language classrooms at different educational levels, yet little is known about how teachers promote the learning of CT. This article reports on a qualitative study examining the ways in which two university English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Asalifew Mekuria; Elias Woemego Bushisho; Hailu Wubshet – Cogent Education, 2024
This research examined the impact of explicit reading strategy training on Ethiopian university students' reading strategy use and critical reading ability in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. Two intact classes, a control group (n = 35) and an experimental group (n = 45), participated in the study. The experimental group received…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Critical Reading, English (Second Language)
Kuperman, Victor; Siegelman, Noam; Schroeder, Sascha; Acartürk, Cengiz; Alexeeva, Svetlana; Amenta, Simona; Bertram, Raymond; Bonandrini, Rolando; Brysbaert, Marc; Chernova, Daria; Da Fonseca, Sara Maria; Dirix, Nicolas; Duyck, Wouter; Fella, Argyro; Frost, Ram; Gattei, Carolina A.; Kalaitzi, Areti; Lõo, Kaidi; Marelli, Marco; Nisbet, Kelly; Papadopoulos, Timothy C.; Protopapas, Athanassios; Savo, Satu; Shalom, Diego E.; Slioussar, Natalia; Stein, Roni; Sui, Longjiao; Taboh, Analí; Tønnesen, Veronica; Usal, Kerem Alp – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Research into second language (L2) reading is an exponentially growing field. Yet, it still has a relatively short supply of comparable, ecologically valid data from readers representing a variety of first languages (L1). This article addresses this need by presenting a new data resource called "MECO L2" (Multilingual Eye Movements…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Eye Movements, Reading Skills, College Students
Degani, Tamar; Yagev Bar-David, Orr; Levy Adam, Lior – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Because both spelling and reading abilities tap orthographic knowledge, improvements in one ability may lead to improvements in the other. Here, we test whether spelling performance in a second-language (L2) can be improved by a short L2 reading task, as brief exposure to an L2 can increase the activation of L2 representations, making orthographic…
Descriptors: Spelling Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Skills
Ghazi M. Ghaith; Samar A. Harkous – Reading Psychology, 2024
This article investigates the role of reading proficiency and reading motivation in the academic achievement of a cohort of college students enrolled in a Middle Eastern university that follows the American model of liberal arts education. Forty-eight (n = 48) students from diverse academic majors completed the adults reading motivation scale,…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Motivation, Academic Achievement, English (Second Language)
Tadele Muche; Birhanu Simegn; Kassie Shiferie – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
A review of the literature on second language learning indicates scanty skill-specific research related to efficacy beliefs and metacognitive strategy use, particularly in students' English reading skills. This study, thus, investigated the influence of metacognitive strategies use and self-efficacy beliefs on EFL reading comprehension of 150…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Strategies
Mitsue Tabata-Sandom; Yoko Ikeda – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This study examines how the perceptions that twelve teachers of Japanese as a second language (L2) had of extensive reading (ER) changed following 10 months of online English ER. Interviews provided much of the study data, supported by pre-project and post-project questionnaires. The participants' pre-project and post-project vocabulary sizes and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Japanese, Second Language Instruction
Yu-Ping Lin; Yujia Shi; Ruoyu Zhang; Xiao Xue; Shitao Rao; Liangying Yin; Kelvin Fai Hong Lui; Dora Jue Pan; Urs Maurer; Kwong-Wai Choy; Silvia Paracchini; Catherine McBride; Hon-Cheong So – npj Science of Learning, 2024
Dyslexia and developmental language disorders are important learning difficulties. However, their genetic basis remains poorly understood, and most genetic studies were performed on Europeans. There is a lack of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on literacy phenotypes of Chinese as a native language and English as a second language (ESL) in a…
Descriptors: Genetics, Phenomenology, Chinese, Foreign Countries
Ali, Zulfiquar; Palpanadan, Sarala Thulasi; Asad, Muhammad Mujtaba; Churi, Prathamesh; Namaziandost, Ehsan – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
Reading is an essential skill for students to perform effectively and successfully in any academic setting. This skill is vital for foreign language learners as it provides chances for students to be exposed to English in input-poor settings. English as a foreign language students' reading skills in diverse contexts remain substandard due to the…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Young-Suk Grace Kim; Jonathan Stern; Nompumelelo Mohohlwane; Stephen Taylor – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Longitudinal data from the Early Grade Reading Study (EGRS I) in South Africa (N = 4538) were used to examine the role of instructional contexts in the relations of literacy skills between children's home language (L1 Setswana) and a second language (L2 English). All children received literacy instruction in Setswana in Grades 1 to 3. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Elementary School Students, Native Language Instruction
Hossein Bozorgian; Narges Nemati; Esmat Shamsi; Baqer Yaqubi – TESOL Journal, 2024
This study explored second language (L2) in-service teachers' (ISTs') attitudes toward writing, probed any discrepancy between their attitudes and practice, and investigated the extent to which writing skill is included in L2 classrooms compared to the other three macro skills, namely listening, speaking, and reading. To conduct this mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Teacher Attitudes, Writing Instruction
Liqaa Habeb Al-Obaydi; D. R. Rahul; Marcel Pikhart – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Studies have disclosed conflicting evidence on the effect of oral reading (i.e., reading aloud in class) on various language measures. However, with online learning and teaching, personalized activities are employed to develop students' reading comprehension, improve motivation, and minimize anxieties. A qualitative research design was deployed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Oral Reading
Trisha H. Borman; Geoffrey D. Borman; So Jung Park; Bo Zhu; Scott Houghton – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
We present findings across three randomized trials of "Descubriendo la Lectura" (DLL), an intervention designed to improve literacy skills of Spanish-speaking first graders struggling with reading. DLL is a one-to-one Spanish-language literacy program lasting 12-20 weeks offered to a school's lowest performing emerging bilingual first…
Descriptors: Literacy, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Spanish
Download full textWaleed Ahmed Nureldeen; Hala Alsabatinb; Abdalmuttaleb Al-Sartawi; Reda S.M. Al-Mawadieh – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
The English reading ability of university students is crucial for their academic achievement, regardless of whether they are studying English or any other subject in English. Examining the affective factors that influence this ability is critical for understanding its development. Research has been conducted on the correlation between first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, English (Second Language), Arabic
Eko Suhartoyo; Rida Afrilyasanti; Nur Mukminatien – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2025
In this paper, we investigated the impact of an online classroom-based reading assessment on implementing practices in reading instruction among 30 EFL learners in an intermediate reading course at a public university in East Java, Indonesia. Our study aimed to develop an online classroom-based reading assessment and evaluate its efficacy in…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Computer Assisted Testing, Reading Tests, Reading Instruction
