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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"English reading"”.
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ENGLISH READING ABILITY IN YOUNG DEAF SIGNERS AN INVESTIGATION OF SENTENCE COMPREHENSION
… of the robust correlation between ASL and English reading ability in 54 deaf students aged 7;3 to 19;0. Skilled and unskilled signers were assessed on four English sentence structures (actives, passives, pronouns, reflexive pronouns) using a four-alternative forced choice …
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Factors Influencing the English Reading Test Performance of Spanish-English Bilingual Children
… was to identify factors that influenced the English reading test performance of 51 Spanish-speaking Hispanic children at the fifth- and sixth-grade levels as compared to that of 53 Anglo children enrolled in the same classrooms. The role of reading tests in the assessment and placement of …
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English reading comprehension of Thai undergraduates : L1/L2 usage, texts, strategies and problems
English Ianguage has been taught as a foreign language in Thailand for more than a century and now occupies an important place at all levels of the Thai education system. This study investigates the influence that the Thai language has on intermediate level undergraduate sludents while they are …
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The Goodman psycholinguistic model of English reading and its applicability to Semitic languages
The present study investigated the reading process in Arabic by drawing on the Goodman Model of English Reading, and testing its applicability to Semitic languages. Due to the multi-tier nature of Arabic orthography (i.e. letters and diacritics), two questions were addressed: (1) how the …
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Translanguaging Space in the Academic English Reading Classroom: Chinese MA Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes
… translanguaging space constructed within an EFL (English-as-a-foreign-language) reading classroom at a Chinese university. In this study, a translanguaging space is a pedagogically constructed, learner-centred space where students draw on diverse meaning-making resources to support learning. While …
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Analysis of the relationship between teacher characteristics and learner performance in english reading in Namibia
… characteristics and learner performance in English reading in Namibia. The level of performance in national examinations is often linked to the level of English proficiency of learners. To address my research questions about the impact of selected teacher characteristics on learner …
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A study of language related factors impeding the English reading comprehension of Namibian first year university students
… Namibian learners and students experience in reading and understanding English texts, and which impact negatively on the academic progress of these learners and students. The research was aimed at identifying specific language-related properties of English texts which might impede the English …
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ELL vocabulary acquisition: How improvement measurements are affected by text type, English reading ability, and assessment methods
… factors affect vocabulary acquisition rates from reading English texts for high school students for whom English is a second language, as well as how assessment factors affect the measurement of vocabulary acquisition. In this study, vocabulary acquisition was measured by comparing the differences …
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A study of the English reading comprehension strategies utilised by level-one students at the University of Venda
The purpose of this study was to investigate the English reading strategies utilised by level-one students at the University of Venda. The respondents in this study were three hundred and nine level-one students from various Schools in the University of Venda who were doing English Communication …
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The Influence of Dual Language Education Upon the Development of English Reading Skills of Kindergarten Through Grade Two Students
… Dual Language Education Upon the Development of English Reading Skills of Kindergarten through Grade Two Students.</p> <p>The purpose of this inductive and quantitative research study is to examine the influence of dual language education upon the development of literacy skills in English …
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Year 7 students' English reading comprehension and attitudes and behaviours: Collaborative genre-based versus traditional teaching methods in Thailand
… has been introduced in Thailand that requires English as a foreign language (EFL) to be taught from primary to university level. This study investigates a genre-based method of teaching English to grade 7 secondary students in Thailand. The study was conducted in three phases. In phase 1, Rasch …
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The effects of peer tutoring on first-grade middle school students' English reading achievement and self-esteem in China
… and audio-lingual methods, dominate most English language classrooms in China. Those methods provide a good deal of target language input but do not foster a student-centered learning environment. This study examined the effects of a peer tutoring intervention grounded in constructivist …
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Bridging the gap between research and practice: construction and validation of a CDA-informed English reading test for China's twelfth graders
… most CDA studies of second language (L2) reading tend to identify examinees' mastery of skills by using the existing tests that were not originally designed for diagnostic purposes (e.g., Buck, Tatsuoka, & Kostin, 1997; Kasai, 1997).This has led to inaccurate and/or unsatisfactory …
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The Interplay of Linguistic and Cognitive Factors in Predicting Reading Comprehension: A Case of Primary School Children from the United Kingdom and China
Reading is an essential skill in literacy acquisition as it enables one to understand the meaning of written text. Extensive literature has been conducted to understand individual differences in reading comprehension. However, reading comprehension is such a complex process that a critical missing …
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Biliteracy Effects on Phonological Awareness, Oral Language Proficiency and Reading Skills in Taiwanese Mandarin-English Bilingual Children
… read a heritage language on Taiwanese Mandarin-English bilingual children's Chinese and English phonological awareness, Chinese and English oral language proficiency, and English reading skills. Participants were 40 Taiwanese Mandarin-English bilingual children and 20 English monolingual …
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Biliteracy effects on phonological awareness, oral language proficiency and reading skills in Taiwanese Mandarin-English bilingual children
… read a heritage language on Taiwanese Mandarin-English bilingual children’s Chinese and English phonological awareness, Chinese and English oral language proficiency, and English reading skills. Participants were 40 Taiwanese Mandarin-English bilingual children and 20 English monolingual …
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Student English achievement, attitude and behaviour in bilingual and monolingual schools in Aceh, Indonesia
… school students in Banda Aceh (Indonesia) in English essay writing, English reading comprehension, and attitude and behaviour with regard to learning English, as dependent variables, in the context of differences in gender and school types (bilingual and monolingual schools). The second is to …
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Measuring Student Success: a Study of a Dual Language Program vs. a Transitional Late-Exit Bilingual Program
… this study is to examine differences in math and reading achievement between ELL students served in a Dual Language Two-Way Immersion program and those who are served in a Transitional, Late-Exit Bilingual program. The independent sample t-test, effect size, and Chi Square analysis will be used to …
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