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The mediating effect of metacognitive strategies on the relationship between reading motivation and reading achievement in multilingual and english-dominant students
Reading engagement is a strong predictor of students’ reading outcomes, but its consistent positive effects across diverse student groups remain...
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Pathways from morphological awareness to reading fluency: the mediating role of phonological awareness and vocabulary
The goal of this study was to examine the relation of morphological skills with reading fluency in 2nd grade Greek-speaking children and if...
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The mediating effects of reading amount and strategy use in the relationship between intrinsic reading motivation and comprehension: differences between Grade 4 and Grade 6 students
There has been a significant volume of research studying the effect of individuals’ motivation on reading comprehension. The findings of previous...
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Mediating functions and the semantics of noun incorporation
Noun incorporation is commonly thought to avoid the weak compositionality of compounds because it involves conjunction of an argument noun with the...
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Individual Differences as Factors Mediating the Knowledge of L2 Grammar
The focus of Chap. 1 was primarily on the nature of L2 grammar knowledge, in particular in terms of the...
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Counteracting Homophobic Discourse in Internet Comments: Fuelling or Mediating Conflict?
The present study aims to examine counterspeech used to respond to LGBTIQ-targeted hostility in the comments section on a Lithuanian news portal. The...
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Mediating Job Satisfaction Among English Medium Instruction Teachers in Vietnamese Universities
On the basis that EMI teachers’ job satisfaction is integral to the successful implementation of EMI within universities, we believe that...
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Mediating Girl Power: A Cognitive Approach to Enola Holmes on Page and Screen
Children’s mystery and detective fiction has often reflected cultural and societal changes, introducing the concept of “girl power” as early as the...
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Learning to write syntheses: the effect of process feedback and of observing models on performance and process behaviors
Writing a synthesis text involves interacting reading and writing processes, serving the comprehension of source information, and its integration...
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English Private Tutoring and Washback in Japan
English private tutoring (EPT) in Japan is well established and comes in a variety of forms, notably those found at juku (cram schools) and yobikō...
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The effects of foreign language anxiety on English word reading among Chinese students at risk of English learning difficulties
Foreign language anxiety has influenced reading achievement in English as a second language learning (ESL). However, less is known about how foreign...
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Effects of working memory and visual search skill on Chinese reading comprehension: examining the simple view of reading
To investigate the longitudinal effects of two domain-general cognitive abilities, namely verbal working memory and visual search skill, on Chinese...
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Lawyer Evaluation in Text and Context
This chapter provides an overview of lawyer evaluation in three aspects: its conception, its realization as a linguistic activity, and its role as a...
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A Sociocultural Study of Learning Strategies of New Zealand Learners of Chinese During Study Abroad
Using a sociocultural theoretical framework, this study reports on an inquiry exploring 15 New Zealand students’ usages of Chinese language learning...
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Modeling chinese high school EFL writers’ language mindsets, goal orientations, and feedback-seeking behavior: the interaction effect between language mindsets and writing competence
The feedback-seeking behavior (FSB) framework offers a novel perspective for analyzing second language (L2) learners’ proactive agency in processing...
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Technology, Hybrid Identities, and the Art and Craft of Song-Writing in English
This chapter offers a reflection on the role of technology in mediating the identities of multilingual students taking a university course in...
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Component awareness facilitates Chinese character recognition in non-native Chinese speakers: analysis of the multiple mediation effect
This study investigated the development of component awareness, semantic radical identification ability, semantic radical knowledge application,...
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Exploring the Interface Between Individual Difference Variables and the Knowledge of Second Language Grammar
The last few decades have seen extensive research focusing of the relative effectiveness of different instructional options that can be employed in...
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How orthographic knowledge is related to efficient word reading? Testing competing hypotheses
This study aims to explore the relations of phonological awareness and rapid naming with efficient word reading. Our work builds on the strong...
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Conclusions, Implications and Directions for Future Research
Although there are numerous studies that have investigated the impact of various instructional options and teaching processes on the development of...