Reading as a Foreign Language

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Perceived Book Difficulty and Pleasure Experiences as Flow in Extensive Reading

Yuya Arai

In second or foreign language (L2) extensive reading (ER) studies, learners have been encouraged to read easy books despite the …

Role of Discipline-specific Vocabulary in L2 Reading by Chinese Chemistry Major Undergraduates

Min Gui; Xiaokan Chen; Xiangli Cheng

This study explored the contribution of second language (L2) discipline-specific vocabulary to Chinese chemistry major undergraduates’ reading of textbooks. Participants …

Text Processing and Memory in EFL Reading: The Role of Relevance Instructions

Yukino Kimura

This study examined the effects of relevance instructions on English as a foreign language (EFL) readers’ text processing and memories. …

A Multilingual Perspective on Reading—Investigating Strategies of Irish Students Learning French

Michael Markey

Our aim here is to investigate reading in a foreign language from a multilingual perspective. Much research has focused on …

Causal and Semantic Relations in L2 Text Processing: An Eye-Tracking Study

Shingo Nahatame

This study is an extension of Nahatame’s (2018) research that demonstrated the effects of causal and semantic relations between sentences …

Pre-modified Noun Phrases in a Comprehension-Based Approach to EFL at University Level

Soledad Pampillo; Sandra Lauría

This study examines the difficulty shown by Spanish-speaking university students in decoding pre-modified noun phrases (NPs) in English. NPs carry …

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Chinese Text Presentations and Reading Efficiency

Qiaona Yu

Unlike alphabetic languages, Chinese text marks no word demarcation. Previous research inserted word-demarcating spaces into Chinese text but found inconsistent …

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