Reading as a Foreign Language

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The Reading Process

Effects of forward and backward contextual elaboration on lexical inferences: Evidence from a semantic relatedness judgment task

Akira Hamada

Three experiments examined whether the process of lexical inferences differs according to the direction of contextual elaboration using a semantic …

First language grapheme-phoneme transparency effects in adult second-language learning

Elizabeth Ijalba; Loraine K. Obler

The Spanish writing system has consistent grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences (GPC), rendering it more transparent than English. We compared first-language (L1) orthographic …

Language learner strategy by Chinese-speaking EFL readers when comprehending familiar and unfamiliar texts

Jia-Ying Lee

This study compares the language learner and test-taking strategies used by Chinese-speaking graduate students when confronted with familiar versus unfamiliar …

Reading Instruction

Reading and learning from L2 text: Effects of reading goal, topic familiarity, and language proficiency

Yukie Horiba; Keiko Fukaya

This study examined the effect of reading goal, topic-familiarity, and language proficiency on text comprehension and learning. English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) students …

Extensive Reading

The influence of translation on reading amount, proficiency, and speed in extensive reading

Nobuko Sakurai

This study attempted to examine the influence of a decrease in translation on the number of words read reading comprehension, …