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Artuso, Caterina; Carretti, Barbara; Palladino, Paola – School Psychology International, 2019
This study analyzed the potential transfer effects on reading comprehension skills of two different training programs administered to 9- to 10-year-old children attending fourth grade classes. One training program was based on a working memory updating paradigm (i.e., words, digits, sentence and text updating working memory tasks). The other…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Short Term Memory, Transfer of Training
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Akbulut, Fatma Demiray – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2019
This study investigates the effect of morphological treatment on morphological awareness and reading comprehension skill in a foreign language teaching. Experimental design was used in this study which was conducted with 74 freshmen who are studying at Translation and Interpreting Department. Following the Oxford Quick Placement Test and Nation's…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Park, Eunjeong – Journal of International Students, 2019
Higher education institutions in the United States provide placement essay tests to ensure international students' readiness for college courses. The high-stakes nature of placement tests makes educators and researchers seek significant components of differentiating levels of placement tests. This study investigated the prediction of two levels…
Descriptors: Asians, Foreign Students, Essay Tests, Student Placement
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Williams, Joshua T.; Darcy, Isabelle; Newman, Sharlene D. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
Understanding how language modality (i.e., signed vs. spoken) affects second language outcomes in hearing adults is important both theoretically and pedagogically, as it can determine the specificity of second language (L2) theory and inform how best to teach a language that uses a new modality. The present study investigated which…
Descriptors: Role, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Phonetics
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Sheridan, Robert; Markslag, Laura – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2017
Despite the vast extent of the English vocabulary, it has been estimated that only around 2400 high frequency word families, which are found on Browne, Culligan, and Phillips' (2013) "New General Service List" (NGSL), make up over 92% of most general English texts. Several studies have shown that a word must be encountered anywhere from…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, Vocabulary
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Metlí, Akin; Akis, Dinçer – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2022
Limited studies investigate the high school teachers' challenges and strategies while teaching science and mathematics in English as the target language through the content and language integrated learning (CLIL) approach. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the challenges that science and math teachers encounter and the strategies they employ…
Descriptors: Barriers, Educational Strategies, Advanced Placement Programs, Content and Language Integrated Learning
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Demir, Sezgin; Erdogan, Ayse – European Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Grammar; while originating from the natural structure of the language also is the system which makes it possible for different language functions meet within the body of common rules especially communication. Having command of the language used, speaking and writing it correctly require strong grammar knowledge actually. However only knowing the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Native Language Instruction, Turkish, Teacher Attitudes
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Yoon, Hyung-Jo – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2018
This study has two research purposes related to L2 writing development. The first aim of this study is to explore how L2 learners receiving intensive ESL instruction develop their writing proficiency (writing quality from an analytic rubric) across two writing tasks (narrative and argumentative writing) over one semester. Limiting its focus to…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pexman, Penny M.; Yap, Melvin J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Most previous studies of semantic processing have examined group-level data. We investigated the possibility that there might be individual differences in semantic decision performance even among the standard undergraduate population and that such differences might provide insights into semantic processing. We analyzed the Calgary Semantic…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Semantics, Language Processing, Decision Making
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Uchihara, Takumi; Harada, Tetsuo – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2018
This study investigated the relationship between vocabulary knowledge (written and aural receptive vocabulary size and self-rating of vocabulary knowledge) and self-perceptions of four language skills (reading, listening, writing, speaking) targeting undergraduate students in English-medium instruction (EMI) courses in Japan. The students'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Receptive Language
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Zhang, Mengjia; Pladevall-Ballester, Elisabet – Language and Education, 2021
English-Medium Instruction (EMI) practices in the People's Republic of China (PRC) are still emerging and in need of further empirical investigation, in comparison to European countries. Existing research in the Asian context is mainly based on students' and teachers' perceptions and policy-related concerns. There is a remarkable lack of studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Taboada Barber, Ana; Vizcaya-Jofré, Francisca; Klauda, Susan Lutz – Grantee Submission, 2021
Theory of Mind (ToM), as a relevant aspect in children's socio-cognitive development, has been widely studied. Some results have suggested that bilingual children have an advantage over their monolingual peers in development of ToM. However, there is less research regarding the predictive role of ToM in performance of oral and reading…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Oral Reading, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
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Michaud, Mélissa; Dion, Eric; Barrette, Anne; Dupéré, Véronique; Toste, Jessica – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
Theoretical models of word recognition suggest that knowing what a word means makes it easier to learn how to decode it. We tested this hypothesis with at-risk young students, a group that often responds poorly to conventional decoding instruction in which word meaning is not addressed systematically. A total of 53 first graders received explicit…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Decoding (Reading), Reading Achievement, Grade 1
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Khoshsima, Hooshang; Hosseini, Monirosadat; Toroujeni, Seyyed Morteza Hashemi – English Language Teaching, 2017
Advent of technology has caused growing interest in using computers to convert conventional paper and pencil-based testing (Henceforth PPT) into Computer-based testing (Henceforth CBT) in the field of education during last decades. This constant promulgation of computers to reshape the conventional tests into computerized format permeated the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Correlation
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Bulut, Berker; Karasakaloglu, Nuri – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
In this research, the effect of active listening training given to fourth grade students on their vocabulary was examined. Pre-test--post-test control group trial model, which is one of the semi-experimental trial models, was used. Besides, "Vocabulary Test" developed by the researcher was applied to experimental and control groups…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Listening, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
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