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Direct linkKosaka, Takumi – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2023
The present study investigated the impact of chunk reading training (CRT) on the online syntactic processing and verbal working memory (WM) of Japanese EFL (English as a foreign language) learners in secondary school. For four weeks, the treatment group (N = 31) underwent CRT, while the control group (N = 25) participated in reading training in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Syntax, Phrase Structure, Reading Processes
Pampillo, Soledad; Lauría, Sandra – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
This study examines the difficulty shown by Spanish-speaking university students in decoding pre-modified noun phrases (NPs) in English. NPs carry a heavy lexical and conceptual load and foreign language (L2) readers may be challenged by first language (L1) crosslinguistic influence triggered by cognate NPs. Therefore, this study also attempts to…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Download full textShen, Helen H.; Zhou, Yi; Gao, Gengsong – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2020
This study investigated types of oral reading miscues and their relationship with silent reading comprehension among college-level Chinese as a second language (L2) learners, as well as these students' perspectives toward classroom oral reading practice, at three U.S. universities. Altogether, 80 students were selected randomly to participate in…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Comprehension, Sustained Silent Reading, Undergraduate Students
Understanding Russian Texts: A Short Course Procedure Using the Integrated Dictionary Search Method.
Peer reviewedHeron, Patricia A. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1983
A teaching technique used in a short course in reading scientific and technical Russian without previous Russian language experience is described. A special grammar-and-dictionary is used in a rule-governed manner to produce semi-automatically a sentence-for-sentence analysis of specialized texts. (MSE)
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Language Usage
Peer reviewedRidgway, Tony – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1994
Presents a theory of reading and a justification in the form of a defense of a highly generalized approach to the different forms of reading and of a lexical approach to receptive grammar. The article also addresses the question of the usefulness of models in general and this one in particular, specifically with relation to foreign-language…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Models, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Phrase Structure
