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How does creativity affect second language speech production?:The moderating role of speaking task type
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The Multidimensionality of Second Language Oral Fluency:Interfacing Cognitive Fluency and Utterance Fluency
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The effects of read-aloud assistance, vocabulary and background knowledge on comprehension of health-related texts of Sri-Lankan English as second language speakers
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In: Journal of the European Second Language Association; Vol 5, No 1 (2021); 133–147 ; 2399-9101 (2021)
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Abstract:
In order to understand the role of the factors that can predict the comprehension of health-related texts in a second language (L2), we conducted a study that examines whether allowing L2 users to listen to a health-related text while reading it affects understanding. We also investigated what role general and health-related vocabulary knowledge play in the comprehension of health-related texts in a silent-reading and reading-while-listening conditions. Our participants were 259 Sri Lankan L2 users who read two health-related texts silently and read two other texts while listening to the text being read out to them. They also completed an L2 vocabulary knowledge and a health-related vocabulary knowledge test. We used Generalized Linear Mixed-Effects Models to predict the effect of text presentation mode, L2 and health-related vocabulary knowledge on comprehension. The results showed no significant effect of text presentation mode. However, both L2 vocabulary knowledge and health-related vocabulary knowledge were found to play a substantial role in text comprehension. Our findings also revealed that Sri Lankan L2 users generally demonstrated inadequate comprehension of health-related texts. To promote a higher level of health-related text comprehension in an additional language, the general and health-specific L2 vocabulary knowledge and language proficiency of the population needs to be improved.
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health comprehension; health-related vocabulary knowledge; Read-aloud assistance; second language; second language acquisition
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URL: https://doi.org/10.22599/jesla.78 https://www.euroslajournal.org/jms/article/view/78
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The Relationship Between Utterance and Perceived Fluency:A Meta-Analysis of Correlational Studies
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Testing young foreign language learners’ reading comprehension:Exploring the effects of working memory, grade level, and reading task
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Introduction of Methods Showcase Articles in Language Learning
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Motivational factors in computer-administered integrated skills tasks:A study of young learners
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Linguistic dimensions of comprehensibility and perceived fluency:an investigation of complexity, accuracy, and fluency in second language argumentative speech
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Inclusion of Research Materials When Submitting an Article to Language Learning
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The Effects of Read-aloud Assistance on Second Language Oral Fluency in Text Summary Speech
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Time Extension and the Second Language Reading Performance of Children with Different First Language Literacy Profiles
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The role of working memory in young second language learners’ written performances
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The role of low-level first language skills in second language reading, reading-while-listening and listening performance:a study of young dyslexic and non-dyslexic language learners
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The effect of read-aloud assistance on the text comprehension of dyslexic and non-dyslexic English language learners
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The role of working memory in processing L2 input:insights from eye-tracking
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The Second Language Learning Processes of Students with Specific Learning Difficulties
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The effects of specific learning difficulties on processes of multilingual language development
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Relationship between attentional processing and working memory:an eye-tracking study
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Attentional processing of input in explicit and implicit learning conditions:an eye-tracking study
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