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Direct linkZhang, Yanhong; Xi, Jiao – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
Research into metacognition has found it to facilitate self-regulation and correlate to learners' L2 writing level. Following Lee & Mak's (2018) framework of Metacognitive Instruction (MI) for L2 writing classrooms, this study applies Dynamic Assessment (DA) to writing MI (MI-DA) in a rural middle school EFL class in China. A one-semester…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Correlation
Philip Capin; Jeremy Miciak; Bethany H. Bhat; Greg Roberts; Paul K. Steinle; Jack Fletcher; Sharon Vaughn – Remedial and Special Education, 2024
This U.S. study evaluated the effects of a reading intervention for emergent bilingual students with significant reading difficulties in Grades 6 and 7 within a multisite randomized controlled trial. Emergent bilinguals were randomized to a researcher-provided intervention (n = 171) or business-as-usual comparison condition (n = 169). Results on a…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Middle School Students, Grade 7, English (Second Language)
Download full textYelgeç, Nihal; Dagyar, Miray – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2020
This study aims to investigate the impact of metacognitive awareness and self-efficacy beliefs of middle school students on their level of foreign language learning anxiety by using structural equation modelling. A total of 285 7th and 8th grade students from a middle school in Turkey during the 2018-2019 academic year were included in the study.…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Middle School Students, Metacognition, Self Efficacy
Trapman, Mirjam; van Gelderen, Amos; van Schooten, Erik; Hulstijn, Jan – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
In a longitudinal design, we measured 50 low-achieving adolescents' reading comprehension development from Grades 7 to 9. There were 24 native Dutch and 26 language minority students. In addition, we assessed the roles of (a) linguistic knowledge, (b) metacognitive knowledge, and (c) reading fluency in predicting both the level and growth of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Adolescents, Low Achievement
van Steensel, Roel; Oostdam, Ron; van Gelderen, Amos; van Schooten, Erik – Journal of Research in Reading, 2016
In this study, we analysed the relationships between word decoding, vocabulary knowledge, meta-cognitive knowledge and reading comprehension in low-achieving adolescents and examined whether the strength of these relationships differed between Grade 7 and 9 students and between monolingual and bilingual students. Tests were administered to 328…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Grade 7
Vandergrift, Larry; Baker, Susan – Language Learning, 2015
Listening comprehension plays a key role in language acquisition, yet little is known about the variables that contribute to the development of second language (L2) listening ability. This study sought to obtain empirical evidence for the impact of some of the learner variables and the degree to which they might predict success in L2 listening.…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Short Term Memory, Language Research
Chen, Mei-Ling – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between grade level, perceptual learning style preferences, and language learning strategies among Taiwanese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students in grades 7 through 9. Three hundred and ninety junior high school students participated in this study. The instruments for data…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Second Languages, Learning Strategies, Questionnaires
Kolic-Vehovec, Svjetlana; Bajsanski, Igor – Journal of Research in Reading, 2007
This study explored comprehension monitoring, use of reading strategies and reading comprehension of bilingual students at different levels of perceived proficiency in Italian. The participants were bilingual fifth to eighth-grade elementary school students from four Italian schools in Rijeka, Croatia. Students' reading comprehension was assessed.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Reading Strategies, Italian
