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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"extensive reading"”.
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THE EFFECTS OF EXTENSIVE READING AND READING STRATEGIES ON READING SELF-EFFICACY
… longitudinal investigation into the role that extensive reading and reading strategies play in the cultivation of reading self-efficacy. Conducted over the course of one academic year, how changes in reading self-efficacy translate into changes in reading comprehension was examined. In …
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Development of Reading Fluency During an Extensive Reading Course Incorporating Reading Fluency Tasks
Reading approaches in Japan and other EFL settings have typically focused on accuracy at the expense of fluency. However, reading rate and fluency are important components of reading that are currently being neglected. A review of the literature reveals growing interest in investigating the …
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The influence of extensive reading on junior high school students' reading motivation and reading performance in Taiwan
… in learning a foreign language can affect their reading motivation and performance in second language acquisition. As an important means of providing second language learners with systematic reading materials, extensive reading is an approach that involves a wide range of original and interesting …
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Extensive reading : an empirical study of its effects on EFL Thai students' reading comprehension, reading fluency and attitudes
This study investigated reading comprehension, reading fluency andattitudes of students after exposure to extensive reading (ER), an approach toteaching and learning foreign languages without using a dictionary or focusing ongrammar, but aiming to get learners to read extensively by choosing books …
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The Dynamic Cognitive Processes of Second Language Reading Fluency
Second language (L2) reading fluency has not received sufficient attention in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) and applied linguistics, especially regarding the types of treatments that promote reading fluency (Grabe, 2009). Hence, this study was a longitudinal, quasi-experimental …
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Developing EFL Reading Fluency in Upper Elementary Schools in China
… the importance of developing EFL students’ reading fluency, and more importantly, to provide specific curriculum for upper elementary school EFL students to improve their reading fluency. The most important intervention being used in this curriculum is extensive reading which appears in …
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An investigation of incidental vocabulary learning using English online consumer electronics review with undergraduates of Computer Science (EdD TESOL)
… complementary. It is generally considered that extensive reading may promote incidental vocabulary learning (Schmitt, 2010). The present study seeks to design an English reading course for Taiwanese undergraduates using online consumer electronics reviews as authentic materials so as to provide …
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Learner Modelling for Individualised Reading in a Second Language
Extensive reading is an effective language learning technique that involves fast reading of large quantities of easy and interesting second language (L2) text. However, graded readers used by beginner learners are expensive and often dull. The alternative is text written for native speakers …
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Encouraging ESL Teachers to Empower Their Students to Read
… affecting their academic progress is their reading skills.</p> <p>It is widely accepted that a successful student in higher education must be able to read and comprehend assigned readings quickly. However, reading speed and comprehension pose a significant obstacle for ESL students who are …
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AN EVALUATION OF EXTENSIVE AND INTENSIVE TEACHING OF LITERATURE; ANOTHER YEAR’S EXPERIMENT IN THE ELEVENTH GRADE
… methods of teaching literature: intensive and extensive. Nancy Coryell’s famous 1927 study titled “An Evaluation of Extensive and Intensive Teaching of Literature; A Year’s Experiment in Eleventh Grade” is considered the first major English education study, and attempts to determine which …
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Colossal classroom adventure: Developing interactive fiction for English language learners
… for non-native English speakers to hone their extensive reading skills in American English. The history of text based gaming will be used to establish a guide over the potential pitfalls unique to the genre. Then the uses of games in an educational context will be established to show the …
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The Effects of Hypertext Glosses on L2 Vocabulary Acquisition: A Meta-Analysis
… (L2). From this perspective, the notion of extensive or free voluntary reading (Day & Bamford, 1998; Krashen, 1993) has emerged that L2 learners should be given more pleasure reading by minimizing a burden look-up behavior. At the same time, technology innovation has made it possible for …
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Vocabulary comprehension of advanced ESL learners in academic reading: A collective case study
… be aware of the benefits of thematically related extensive reading in vocabulary learning. Consciousness-raising about the importance of vocabulary knowledge in text comprehension will increase learner attention to unknown words in text comprehension. Finally, practitioners can guide their …
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Dominance and radical submission in seventeenth-century drama: chastity, fairness, and silence in portrayals of Mar(r)iam(ne), Sophonisba, and Cleopatra
<p>This thesis conducts an extensive reading of early modern English playwrights’ interpretation of ancient royalty. I survey a series of seventeenth-century plays concerning Mariamne I, the Carthaginian noblewoman Sophonisba, and Cleopatra VII. I argue that the English stage produced two models of …
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POST-COLONIAL DISLOCATION AND AMNESIA: A CURE FROM MOLEFI KETE ASANTE'S AN AFROCENTRIC MANIFESTO
… project applies an Afrocentric approach in its reading of the post-colonial authors and theorists. While current postcolonial theory seems to be at stake with operationalizing many of its terms and concepts, the application of Afrocentric methods can help answering severe allegations raised by a …
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Measuring and comparing the readability and vocabulary coverage of CNN, China Post and Taipei Times
… suitable texts for vocabulary learning and for reading instruction. It could also offer some information for material developers and programme administrators.<br/><br/>The results showed that the three online newspapers, CNN, the China Post and the Taipei Times had a GSL coverage of 77.85%, …
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A study of Edith Sitwell as a critic.
… and lettered persons; a background of extensive reading and education; and association with persons gifted in the fields of music, art, and literature. An interest in the history of literature and an appreciation for the foundation of that literature--the great writers and the accepted …
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Fitzgerald in the Late 1910s: War and Women
… the zeitgeist of the late 1910s through an extensive reading of period print media. Chapter 1 treats "Sentiment, " one of the few Fitzgerald works to deal directly with the war. American periodicals published many articles dealing with European—and especially British—reactions to the war. …
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Painting Invasion and Colonisation: Provisional Evocations of the Past
… Distinctively, this studio research responds to extensive reading of both primary sources such as the journals of George Robinson, and current perspectives on our contact history. The contemporary historical studies I reference include Lyndall Ryan’s The Aboriginal Tasmanians, Henry Reynolds' …
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Painting Invasion and Colonisation: Provisional Evocations of the Past
… Distinctively, this studio research responds to extensive reading of both primary sources such as the journals of George Robinson, and current perspectives on our contact history. The contemporary historical studies I reference include Lyndall Ryan’s The Aboriginal Tasmanians, Henry Reynolds' …
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