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Direct linkHelén Egerhag; Heidi Selenius; Linda Fälth; Idor Svensson – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2023
Many second language (L2) students in Sweden struggle with reading in Swedish. There needs to be more research on how L2 students with weak word decoding skills in Swedish could be individually supported. Therefore, the current study examined the impact of a systematic and intensive word decoding intervention in Swedish among individual L2…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Intervention, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Ji Qi; Barry Lee Reynolds; Xiaoke Bai – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
This extension study investigates the relationship between self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies and first language (L1) Chinese and second language (L2) English reading test performance among 190 primary six students in mainland China, building upon the findings by Tse et al. (2022). Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the acceptable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Independent Study, Reading Comprehension
Mingyao Sun; Shui-duen Chan; Sihui Ke; Xinhua Zhu; Yuan Yao – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
Shared book reading is necessary for learning Chinese as a second language (L2), but its effectiveness requires further empirical exploration and support. Scholars emphasise considering parental and child characteristics alongside school-based interventions. Guided by the bioecological framework, this study included three groups: an experimental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Reading Instruction, Second Language Learning
Mark Feng Teng – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
Metacognitive knowledge is essential to vocabulary learning and reading. However, there have been few longitudinal studies investigating how the breadth of vocabulary knowledge mediates the relationship between metacognitive knowledge and reading over time in a foreign language context. This study involved 361 primary school students, who were…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Vocabulary Development, Grade 3, Grade 4
Parsons, Christine E.; Lyddy, Fiona – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2009
For the majority of people in Ireland, Irish is a second language acquired primarily through the schooling system. This study examined the reading strategies children used in response to English and Irish words (presented in isolation), through an analysis of their oral reading errors. Children in their 4th year of schooling attending…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Immersion Programs, Early Reading, Reading Strategies
Loh, Jason Kok Khiang – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2009
This case study investigates whether teachers model reading in 1 Singapore primary school during an exercise called "uninterrupted sustained silent reading" (USSR) carried out in the classroom. Even though reading is an important determinant of a student's growth in language skills and ability, and modeling the act of reading is…
Descriptors: Sustained Silent Reading, Reading Programs, Interviews, Foreign Countries
