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Lin, Jia – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
The "ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines" serve as a roadmap for foreign/second language (L2) instruction, assessment, curriculum development, and textbook writing. However, very little research has investigated the validity claims of the "ACTFL Guidelines." This study empirically verifies the difficulty hierarchy suggested by…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Guidelines, Language Proficiency, Reading Ability
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Wanna, Wendiyfraw – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
In order to have a better understanding of the nature of reading behavior, it is quite essential to scrutinize the underlying assumptions of the two competing theories: the componential approach and unitary hypothesis and see how this is reflected on testing the reading skills. As a result, the current study was aimed at broadening the existing…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Skills, Scores, Cloze Procedure
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Lim Seong Pek; Na-Thinamalar Magiswari Nadarajan; Hafizah Khusni; Rita Wong Mee Mee; Md Rosli Ismail; Nur Syafiqah Qistina Shahrel Adha; Amin E Sama Ae Jeh Arma – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
Learning loss pertains to the decline or regression in knowledge and abilities, as well as setbacks in academic advancement. This phenomenon typically arises from prolonged interruptions or gaps in the pupil's educational journey. Learning loss can be observed in diverse manifestations due to many factors. One example that can be illustrated is…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Ability, Reading Skills, Achievement Gains
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Nasongkhla, Jaitip; Sujiva, Siridej – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2023
The Thai language, which is part of the Indo-Iranian language family, carries on rituals and local knowledge that have been passed down from generation to generation. The Thai National Statistics Office found that 10% of elementary school students in Thailand cannot read. This means that 90% of elementary school students in Thailand can read. The…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Foreign Countries, Computer Simulation, Elementary School Students
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Cameron, Tracy A.; Schaughency, Elizabeth; Taumoepeau, Mele; McPherson, Craig; Carroll, Jane L. D. – School Psychology, 2023
Oral language and early literacy skills are theorized to provide the foundation for reading acquisition. To understand these relations, methods are needed that depict dynamic skill development in the context of reading acquisition. We modeled contributions of school-entry skills and early skill trajectories to later reading with 105 5-year-old…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy, Oral Language
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Sana Tibi; Ashley A. Edwards; John R. Kirby; Soheil H. Salha – SAGE Open, 2024
Reading anxiety measures are newly available in English, but none is available in Arabic. The goals of the present study were to adapt the English Reading Anxiety in College Students (RACS) scale to Arabic-speaking college students (RACS-Arabic), evaluate its reliability and other psychometric properties in comparison to the English US sample, and…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Reading, Arabic, Translation
Sandy Abu El Adas – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Previous studies show that linguistic information and talker information interact during processing. Familiarity with a language facilitates talker processing, and familiarity with a talker's voice facilitates linguistic processing. To probe the factors involved in talker processing, researchers examined how individual differences in reading…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Phonology
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Zou, Lijuan; Xia, Zhichao; Zhang, Wei; Zhang, Xianglin; Shu, Hua – Developmental Science, 2022
While the close relationship between the brain system for speech processing and reading development is well-documented in alphabetic languages, whether and how such a link exists in children in a language without systematic grapheme-phoneme correspondence has not been directly investigated. In the present study, we measured Chinese children's…
Descriptors: Brain, Children, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Speech Communication
Meghan J. Rivera – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study is to investigate if a mindfulness mandala coloring activity reduces a student's anxiety about reading. Reading is a fundamental skill for all other academic success, making proficient reading skills necessary. This study investigates if a reduction in a third grade student's reading anxiety results in changes to oral…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Reading Ability
Ashley Ann Edwards – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Little is known about what contributes to individual differences in reading fluency after accounting for accuracy. Previous research has shown individual differences in the relative growth in word and nonword reading, specifically a pattern in which students who start lower on reading grow more in word than nonword reading ability. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Prediction, Reading Ability, Reading Fluency, Reading Rate
Janel Dorene Morris – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Based on recommendations from research, leaders in a north Texas public school district implemented social emotional learning (SEL) to address academic gaps among high residential mobility (HRM) students. Incorporating SEL instruction improves academic achievement 11 percentile points on average; however, in Adoniram School District (ASD), 2021…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Social Emotional Learning, Student Mobility, Elementary School Students
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Pei, Yalian; O'Brien, Katy H. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2023
Background: To examine levels of reading self-efficacy in college students and further understand sources that foster reading self-efficacy at the postsecondary level, there is a need for a valid scale that can be used for college student populations. Methods: In Phase 1, 160 items were generated and reviewed by a panel of experts and a group of…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Measures (Individuals), Reading Skills, Undergraduate Students
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Mihaylova, Milena Slavcheva; Bocheva, Nadejda Bogdanova; Stefanova, Miroslava Dimitrova; Genova, Bilyana Zaharieva; Totev, Tsvetalin Totev; Racheva, Kalina Ivanova; Shtereva, Katerina Atanasova; Staykova, Svetla Nikolaeva – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2022
Background and aims: Developmental disorders such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Developmental Dyslexia (DD) are reported to have more visual problems, oral language difficulties, and diminished reading skills in addition to their different diagnostic features. Moreover, these conditions…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Reading Processes, Developmental Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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McDowall, Sue – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2022
In this article, I describe the challenges students faced in interpreting literary--or fictional--texts in the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement in the English learning area. I explain why it is important for students to learn how to interpret literary texts at school and consider why they might struggle with this important skill. I…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Fiction, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
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González-Valenzuela, Maria-José; López-Montiel, Dolores; Chebaani, Fatma; Cobos-Cali, Marta; Piedra-Martínez, Elisa; Martin-Ruiz, Isaías – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
This study analyzes the impact of certain cognitive processes on word and pseudoword reading in languages with different orthographic consistency (Spanish and Arabic) in the first year of Primary Education. The study was conducted with a group of 113 pupils from Algeria and another group of 128 pupils from Ecuador, from a middle-class background…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Cognitive Processes, Reading Processes, Word Recognition
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