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Megan Dixon; Jane Oakhill – Education 3-13, 2024
There are few measures of teacher professional knowledge of reading comprehension, therefore little is known about the levels of teacher professional knowledge, their motivation and attitudes to teaching reading comprehension. The Knowledge, Behaviour and Attitudes Test for Reading Comprehension (KBAT-RC) was developed from a systematic literature…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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Beverly FitzPatrick; Mike Chong; James Tuff; Sana Jamil; Khalid Al Hariri; Taylor Stocks – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2024
Purpose: Many PhD students have strong reading comprehension, but some struggle with how to read critically. The purpose of this study is to understand what reading looks like for PhD students, what they are doing when they read scholarly texts and how they bring these texts to life in meaningful ways. Design/methodology/approach: The authors…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Critical Reading, Reading Comprehension, Participatory Research
Reed, Marnie; Jones, Tamara – TESOL Press, 2021
Teaching listening means more than just giving students listening activities and checking for understanding--it means teaching them how to listen. "Listening in the Classroom" takes promising research findings and theory and turns them into practical teaching ideas that help develop listening proficiency.
Descriptors: Listening Skills, Teaching Methods, Listening Comprehension
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Khajavy, Gholam Hassan; Aghaee, Elham – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2023
Research has indicated the importance of vocabulary knowledge and background knowledge in second/foreign language (L2) listening comprehension. However, previous studies treated these two factors separately, and no study has examined the simultaneous contribution of these two factors to L2 listening comprehension. Therefore, the aim of this study…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension
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Yang, Yu-Fen; Kuo, Nai-Cheng – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
Few studies on higher education focus on how English as a Foreign Language (EFL) college students may enhance their global literacy through cross-cultural communication. This mixed methods research reports on a blended learning program with cross-cultural communication to foster EFL college students' global literacy. A sample of 97 EFL college…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, English (Second Language), College Students, Second Language Learning
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Zhang, Songshan; Zhang, Xian – Language Teaching Research, 2022
This study set out to investigate the relationship between L2 vocabulary knowledge (VK) and second-language (L2) reading/listening comprehension. More than 100 individual studies were included in this meta-analysis, which generated 276 effect sizes from a sample of almost 21,000 learners. The current meta-analysis had several major findings.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension
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Hussein, Rasha Abed; Sabit, Shaker Holh; Alwan, Merriam Ghadhanfar; Wafqan, Hussam Mohammed; Baqer, Abeer Ameen; Ali, Muneam Hussein; Hachim, Safa K.; Sahi, Zahraa Tariq; AlSalami, Huda Takleef; Sulaiman, Bahaa Aldin Fawzi – International Journal of Language Testing, 2022
Dictation is a traditional technique for both teaching and testing overall language ability and listening comprehension. In a dictation, a passage is read aloud by the teacher and examinees write down what they hear. Due to the peculiar form of dictations, psychometric analysis of dictations is challenging. In a dictation, there is no clear…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Verbal Communication, Teaching Methods, Language Skills
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Lee, Shinhye – ETS Research Report Series, 2022
In response to the calls for making key stakeholders' perspectives relevant in the test validation process, the study discussed in this report sought test-taker feedback as part of collecting validity evidence and supporting the ongoing field testing efforts of the new "TOEFL ITP"® Speaking section. Specifically, I aimed to investigate…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Test Validity
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Tibken, Catharina; Richter, Tobias; Wannagat, Wienke; Schmiedeler, Sandra; von der Linden, Nicole; Schneider, Wolfgang – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
The inconsistency task is used to measure metacognitive monitoring in text comprehension via online (reading time) and offline measures (number of detected inconsistencies). Few studies have examined stability in task performance and interindividual differences. We addressed these issues with adolescents (N = 341) in Grades 6/7 (Mage =…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Kim, Young-Suk Grace; Petscher, Yaacov; Uccelli, Paola; Kelcey, Benjamin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Two widely studied language skills in relation to reading comprehension are listening comprehension skill and academic language proficiency. Although their constituent skills and theoretical accounts of how they are related to reading comprehension share a large overlap, they have been studied in separate lines of work. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students
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Ge, Haoyan; Liu, Fang; Yuen, Hoi Kwan; Chen, Aishu; Yip, Virginia – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
This study investigated the comprehension of prosodically and syntactically marked focus by 5- to 8-year-old Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Children listened to question-answer dialogues while looking at pictures depicting the scenarios, and judged whether the answers were correct responses to the…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Sino Tibetan Languages, Suprasegmentals
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Filstad, Cathrine; Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Thomassen, Anja Overgaard – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to contribute to the literature on distributed sensemaking by studying how the police establish and develop their new position as police contacts during the police reform. Design/methodology/approach: The authors studied how the position of police contact, a cornerstone of the recent Norwegian police reform, was…
Descriptors: Police, Comprehension, Organizational Change, Foreign Countries
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Soto, Christian; Gutierrez de Blume, Antonio P.; Rebolledo, Verónica; Rodríguez, Fernanda; Palma, Diego; Gutiérrez, Fernando – Metacognition and Learning, 2023
Reading comprehension and writing are essential skills for success in modern societies. Additionally, reading and writing have been described as highly reflective activities that necessitate metacognitive monitoring and control. However, reading comprehension and writing are skills moderated by many factors, proficiency among them. Thus, in the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Writing Skills, Reading Achievement
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Greene, Nathaniel R.; Naveh-Benjamin, Moshe – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Assessing the time course under which underlying memory representations can be formed is an important question for understanding memory. Several studies assessing item memory have shown that gist representations of items are laid out more rapidly than verbatim representations. However, for associations among items/components, which form the core…
Descriptors: Memory, Comprehension, Cognitive Processes, Visual Discrimination
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Wang, Yi; Zhou, Zhijin; Paas, Fred – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
In this study, we investigated whether a colourful design would foster the aesthetic appreciation of Chinese classic poetry, and the role of learners' empathy trait in this process. Middle school students (N = 159) were assigned to one of four conditions in a 2 (Colour Design: Colourful vs. Grayscale) × 2 (Empathy Trait: High vs. Low)…
Descriptors: Color, Aesthetics, Poetry, Empathy
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