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Working Memory Capacity and L2 Reading: A Meta-Analysis
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In'nami, Yo; Hijikata, Yuko; Koizumi, Rie – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
The relationship between working memory (WM) and second-language (L2) reading has been extensively examined, with mixed results. Our meta-analysis models the potential impact of under-researched variables considered to moderate this relationship. Results from 74 studies (228 correlations) showed a significant, small relationship between WM and L2…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Task Analysis
Is Bilingualism Associated with Better Working Memory Capacity? A Meta-Analysis
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Monnier, Catherine; Boiché, Julie; Armandon, Pauline; Baudoin, Sophie; Bellocchi, Stéphanie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Due to their experience of managing two languages, it has been suggested that bilinguals could receive more practice in the domain of working memory (WM) leading to a WM bilingual advantage. Although some studies have shown that bilinguals can outperform monolinguals in WM tasks, the studies investigating WM capacity in bilinguals provide…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Short Term Memory, Meta Analysis, Second Language Learning
Working Memory and Second Language Learning: A Review of the Past Twenty Years' Research in China
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Shen, Wei; Park, Hyesook – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2020
This paper systematically reviews the studies of working memory in second language learning in China over the past 20 years. A total of 140 studies that were published in 13 major foreign language journals during the past 20 years (2000-2019) were categorized and analyzed according to research method, educational level, and research content. For…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
L2 Reading Comprehension and Its Correlates: A Meta-Analysis
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Jeon, Eun Hee; Yamashita, Junko – Language Learning, 2014
The present meta-analysis examined the overall average correlation (weighted for sample size and corrected for measurement error) between passage-level second language (L2) reading comprehension and 10 key reading component variables investigated in the research domain. Four high-evidence correlates (with 18 or more accumulated effect sizes: L2…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Meta Analysis
The Teaching and Testing of Comprehension in Foreign Language Learning.
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Bernhardt, Elizabeth B.; James, Charles J. – 1987
Instructional models for foreign language reading and listening comprehension are outlined and synthesized, and an instructional procedure based on immediate recall, a standardized method for assessing first-language comprehension, is proposed. First, the interrelated processes of reading and listening comprehension, as currently defined in the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Language Processing, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
From Principles to Protocols: The Contributions of John B. Carroll and Robert Lado to the Testing of Listening Comprehension.
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James, Charles H. – 1986
In the two major sections of this paper the influence of John B. Carroll and Robert Lado on the teaching and testing of listening comprehension since 1961 is examined. The first section reviews the literature of that field and outlines four major periods roughly corresponding to the methodological orientation dominating professional thinking at…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational History