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Direct linkBrian Strong – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2024
While previous research has provided insights into vocabulary learning through extensive reading, the differential effects of word frequency and word class on active form and passive meaning word recognition remain less understood. By evaluating learners' post-test performance in active form recognition and passive meaning recognition, this study…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Word Frequency
Download full textShingo Nahatame – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
This study is an extension of Nahatame's (2018) research that demonstrated the effects of causal and semantic relations between sentences on second language (L2) text processing. Employing eye tracking, this study aimed to examine whether these effects appear during more natural, uninterrupted reading processes and to identify the time course of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Reading Rate, Attribution Theory
Mikami, Hitoshi – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2019
This article discusses the interchangeability of three self-report measures for reading anxiety. Despite their differences in target constructs, the three scales have been used for similar lines of research. After computing shared variance between the target scales and examining the behavior of anxiety indexes in relation to the amount of graded…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Anxiety, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Measures (Individuals)
Fujita, Ken; Yamashita, Junko – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2014
The current study investigated the relation and comparison of reading comprehension and reading rate in Japanese high school EFL learners. One hundred and forty-eight tenth-graders in a Japanese high school participated in this study. Results showed that the relation between reading comprehension and reading rate was weak, but significant (r =…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Correlation
Peer reviewedGrundin, Hans U.; And Others – Journal of Research in Reading, 1981
Details a cross-cultural study of cloze procedure and comprehension conduced in Japan, Canada, Sweden, and the United States with 10- and 11-year-old children. Concludes that cloze procedure is a valid and reliable measure of certain aspects of reading comprehension in all the linguistic and cultural areas sampled. (FL)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Kitao, Kenji – 1995
A series of six studies of the reading ability of Japanese high school and college students investigated the ability of students to process various literary forms and the types of questions students have difficulty with at different levels of reading proficiency. Over 25,000 students completed various versions of an English reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Context Clues, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, High School Students
