Ethnolinguistic minority students may have lower levels of metacognitive knowledge and
English vocabulary knowledge than non-minority students. Nevertheless, few longitudinal …

This research aimed at showing the influence of word recognition, and using skimming and
scanning skills to improve reading comprehension. Participants were a group of 15 students …

Parallel cohorts of Hebrew speakers learning English in the US, and American-English
speakers learning Hebrew in Israel were tracked over the course of two years of immersion …

Metacognitive knowledge is essential to vocabulary knowledge development and possibly
morphological awareness, but related research comparing nonminority Han and minority …

In an experimental design, we investigated how fifth-grade readers use morphological and
contextual information to infer the meaning of unknown words, and to what extent this is …

Reading fluently is the goal of many L2 learners. The purpose of this study was to see how
word recognition and fluency‐building activities affect Iranian EFL students' reading …

This study explored the role of word knowledge dimensions in second language (L2) word-
meaning inference. College-level L2 learners (N= 121) participated in this study and …

Using context to derive a word's meaning is typically conceptualized as part of the reading
comprehension process. However, context sensitivity develops early—before children start …

The contribution of vocabulary to academic achievements in general and to reading
comprehension (RC) in particular has led to the development of various tools for vocabulary …

Mindset can have a profound effect on language learners' willingness to engage in learning
as well as their choice of learning strategy. Growth mindset learners, who embrace …