A context-aligned two thousand test: Toward estimating high-frequency French vocabulary knowledge for beginner-to-low intermediate proficiency adolescent …

A Dudley, E Marsden, G Bovolenta - Language Testing, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Vocabulary knowledge strongly predicts second language reading, listening, writing, and
speaking. Yet, few tests have been developed to assess vocabulary knowledge in French …

Extending the simple view of reading in second and foreign language learning: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach

H Lee, JH Lee - Review of Educational Research, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study used a meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach to build extended
versions of the simple view of reading (SVR) model in second and foreign language (SFL) …

Rethinking first language–second language similarities and differences in English proficiency: Insights from the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project

N Siegelman, I Elgort, M Brysbaert… - Language …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project that offers data on English
reading and listening comprehension from 7,338 university‐level advanced learners and …

Sign language in d/deaf students' spoken/written language development: A research synthesis and meta‐analysis of cross‐linguistic correlation coefficients

D Zhang, S Ke, J Yang, H Anglin‐Jaffe - Review of Education, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the first systematic review and meta‐analysis on cross‐linguistic
correlations between sign language and spoken/written language competences in bilingual …

A Review of Meta-Analyses of Correlation Coefficients on L2 Reading Comprehension

EH Jeon, J Yamashita - Education Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Quantitative meta-analyses have gained popularity among L2 reading researchers in recent
years. Meta-analyses, especially meta-analyses that investigate the relationships among …

Develo** a reading proficiency scale for Chinese as a second language: a confirmatory factor analysis approach

J Lin - Language awareness, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
There is a long history of operationalizing theoretical constructs of language proficiency by
develo** language proficiency scales. However, existing scales are not directly applicable …

Predictors of second language reading comprehension ability: a longitudinal study with learners from grade 9 to 11 in an English as a foreign language context

J Yamashita, T Shiotsu, K Kusanagi - Reading and Writing, 2024 - Springer
This longitudinal study investigated development of second language (L2) reading
comprehension ability and predictive contributions of five L2 reading components (word …

[BOOK][B] Understanding L2 proficiency: Theoretical and meta-analytic investigations

EH Jeon, Y In'nami - 2022 - degruyter.com
Title description This edited volume is a collection of theoretical and empirical overviews of
second language (L2) proficiency based on four skills: reading, writing, listening, and …

Do reading times predict word learning? An eye–tracking study with novel words

I Elgort, EL Beyersmann - Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024 - cambridge.org
Theories of learning and attention predict a positive relationship between reading times on
unfamiliar words and their learning; however, empirical findings of contextual learning …

Creating and evaluating corpus-informed word lists for adolescent, beginner-to-low-intermediate learners of French, German, and Spanish

N Finlayson, E Marsden… - Language Teaching …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study explores some of the implications of policy changes relating to the composition
and use of word lists for French, German, and Spanish as foreign languages in secondary …