The awarding organizations that create and administer high‐stakes assessments for
beginner‐to‐low‐intermediate 16‐year‐old learners of French, German, and Spanish in …

This study specifically addresses the needs for English-medium textbook reading
comprehension of Chinese computer science undergraduates who have already mastered …

An extensive body of research has investigated the role of syntactic complexity in gauging
the linguistic complexity of reading texts, particularly for the purpose of determining their …

TESOL preparation teachers (Bunch, play Walqui, an indispensable & Pearson, role 2014).
in A teaching critical consider-material preparation (Bunch, Walqui, & Pearson, 2014). A …

The use of literal prompts (LPs) and inferential prompts (IPs) in shared book reading (SBR)
facilitates children's use of language and promotes their thinking and understanding about …

The effect of multiword sequences on L2 writing proficiency among different genres and their
relations to vocabulary levels are understudied. In this study 60 indices of bigrams and …

Lexical complexity has been a key consideration of teaching preparation in determining
grade appropriateness of teaching materials. However, the lack of quantified and defined …

Vocabulary use occupies an important position in the field of applied linguistics. The
available current literature suggests that the word use of language learners in a foreign …

In the assessment of English as a foreign language (EFL) reading proficiency, text
adaptation is an important and challenging task for teachers. Although an increasing …

The current research investigates the lexical coverage of reading passages required for
achieving the minimal and optimal levels of reading comprehension in a foreign language …