Background Given the increasing popularity of reading from screens, it is not surprising that
numerous studies have been conducted comparing reading from paper and electronic …

Bilingual people are often claimed to have an advantage over monolingual people in
cognitive processing owing to their ability to learn and use two languages. This advantage is …

The purpose of this study was to determine the relation between reading and working
memory (WM) in the context of 3 major theories: the domain-specificity theory (debate) of …

Can recent failures to replicate psychological research be explained by typical magnitudes
of statistical power, bias or heterogeneity? A large survey of 12,065 estimated effect sizes …

This exploratory study represents an attempt to investigate the factors that may affect the
reading comprehension abilities of English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners. The …

Now in its third edition, Teaching and Researching Reading charts the field of reading (first
and second language) systematically and coherently for the benefit of language teaching …

Learning and developing as a reader are more complicated in a language the reader is
simultaneously learning to speak and understand. This challenge is faced by millions of …

This book is intended to give you a broad overview of Applied Linguistics. It will introduce
you to important areas in the field, and familiarize you with the key issues in each of those …

This paper addresses digital diversity among upper secondary students. Since 2006 digital
skills and competence has been embedded as key competence in the Norwegian national …

Learning to read efficiently is one of the main skills that children has to learn in school and is
important in order to functioning well in modern society. Even if children's reading skills …