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Direct linkDaniel Malakowsky – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2023
Twenty adult ESL students at a community college participated in a semester reading intervention. Participants received a modified extensive reading treatment, and some participants received an additional repeated reading direct instruction reading intervention. The author examined the impact of the reading interventions on ESL students' reading…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Community Colleges
Salarvand, Leila; Guimaraes, Nathalia; Balagholi, Zahra – THAITESOL Journal, 2022
Reading fluency is a skill, which is closely linked to reading comprehension. Learners' struggle with fluency in reading can be a significant hurdle to proficiency in their overall reading comprehension and competency. This paper, based on the thematic analysis approach, presents some theoretically pedagogical strategies discovered for developing…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Language Proficiency, Rhyme
Cui, Gang; Wang, Yuemin; Zhong, Xiaoyun – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
This study aims to investigate the effect of suprasegmental phonological training on connected-text reading comprehension of Chinese university students with different English reading proficiency levels. A sample of 160 freshmen was recruited and randomly divided into experimental and control groups, and the experimental group was given a 12-week…
Descriptors: Phonology, Suprasegmentals, Reading Comprehension, College Students
Stephens, Meredith – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2019
Aka (2019) conducted an year-long large-scale study demonstrating that Japanese high school students who undertook extensive reading performed better than a control group who undertook grammatical instruction. Those showing the greatest gains were those of lower and intermediate proficiency. The students' achievement was measured in terms of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, High School Students, Foreign Countries
Mirfatemi, Fatemeh; Sadeghi, Amir; Niyazi, Mitra P. – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
Supra-segmental features refer to various forms of intonation and how words and sentences are uttered. Such features challenge meaning and comprehension, too. Despite the importance of these features and their reported association with phonological awareness and linguistic comprehension, their effects on reading comprehension have not been…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Shimono, Torrin R. – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2019
The effects of repeated oral reading and timed reading on L2 oral reading fluency were examined among Japanese university students (N = 50) over 12 weeks. Three quasi-experimental groups were used in the study. Group 1 practiced two types of reading: Repeated oral reading with chunking practice and timed reading. Group 2 did timed reading only.…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Rate, Reading Fluency, Phrase Structure
Shimono, Torrin R. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2018
The progression of silent reading rates and reading comprehension were examined among Japanese university students (N = 55) over one academic semester. Participants were divided into three quasi-experimental groups. The first group practiced a combination of timed reading and repeated oral reading with attention paid to chunking and prosody. The…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tunskul, Thidawan; Piamsai, Chatraporn – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2016
This study compared various measures used to assess oral reading fluency skills in relation to reading comprehension. The participants were 54 first year students from the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. An English Oral Reading Fluency (EORF) test and a set of comprehension questions were devised. Then, the scores of rate,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language
Bluemel, Brody – Dimension, 2014
This article illustrates the pedagogical value of incorporating parallel corpora in foreign language education. It explores the development of a Chinese/English parallel corpus designed specifically for pedagogical application. The corpus tool was created to aid language learners in reading comprehension and writing development by making foreign…
Descriptors: Written Language, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Shariati, Mohammad – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2007
This paper reports on an investigation about the relation between a student's conscious awareness of the structure of a sentence and the degree of his/her intonation accuracy as well as his/her reading comprehension. The research was done based on the hypothesis that: "if the students are made conscious of the infrastructure of lengthy…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentence Structure, Intonation, Form Classes (Languages)
Berger, Gilles – Francais dans le Monde, 1996
A classroom approach using music to enhance the enjoyment of literature in the French language class is discussed. Two short stories by Guy de Maupassant were tape-recorded by a professional actor, with background music added. Students listened to the tapes and completed a written exercise in which they answered vocabulary, comprehension, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, French, French Literature, Grammar
Blankoff, Jean, Ed.; And Others – 1986
Papers from the Proceedings of the 17th meeting of the AIMAV (Association internationale pour le developpement de la communication interculturelle) are collected in this volume. Conference papers appear either in English, in French, or in Russian. For purposes of this abstract, all titles below have been translated into English. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Cultural Awareness
