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Peer reviewedLaufer, Batia – System, 1976
An approach to teaching grammar to university students in a reading comprehension course in English as a foreign language is presented. It is argued that the material and the method of teaching should be determined by the special aim of the course. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Higher Education, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedBensoussan, Marsha; Laufer, Batia – Journal of Research in Reading, 1984
Investigates whether ESL students find some types of words easier to guess than others and whether better ESL students use context more effectively than do weaker students in guessing unknown words. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Context Clues, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Peer reviewedLaufer, Batia – System, 1978
This experiment sought to determine whether students writing in their mother tongue (Hebrew) and thus deprived of the opportunity to be exposed to English through writing could achieve the same reading comprehension level as their peers who write English throughout the course. (SW)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Hebrew, Higher Education, Language Instruction
Download full textLaufer, Batia; Sim, D. D. – 1982
A study was designed to investigate a problem of university level second language (L2) reading comprehension courses, namely, whether to treat reading as a problem of language or of reading strategies. The subjects were six undergraduates who had completed a standard English as a Foreign Language (EFL) reading comprehension course, and a control…
Descriptors: Course Content, English (Second Language), Hebrew, Higher Education
Laufer, Batia; Hill, Monica – 2000
This study investigated the relationship between what people looked up about new words when different kinds of information were available and how well they remembered those words. Dictionary information was incorporated into a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) program comprised of text, highlighted low-frequency words, and access to…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Dictionaries, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedLaufer, Batia; Yano, Yasukata – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2001
Investigates how accurately learners can assess their understanding of words and whether this accuracy is influenced by the learners' culture, gender, and lexical knowledge. Subjects were university students of English in China, Israel, and Japan. A mismatch between the objective and perceived understanding of a reading task was related to the…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedLaufer, Batia; Hadar, Linor – Modern Language Journal, 1997
Examines the differences in effectiveness of three types of dictionaries--monolingual, bilingual, and "bilingualised" in the comprehension and production of new words by learners of English as a foreign language. The study tested participants on the comprehension of target words and on their ability to use these words in their own sentences. (16…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, College Students, Dictionaries, English (Second Language)
