Metalinguistic knowledge has a facilitative effect on reading comprehension. This meta-
analysis examined the relationship between metalinguistic knowledge and reading …

Willy A. Renandya is a language teacher educator with extensive teaching experience in
Asia. He currently teaches applied linguistic courses at the National Institute of Education …

Background This study investigates the effects of higher and lower‐level text processing
strategies on both higher and lower‐level processing skills and cognitive load using the …

Strategies-based instruction (SBI) is widely accepted and successfully implemented in North
America in language and literacy programmes, but little has been reported on how this …

Education holds the key to unlock human resources that a society needs to survive and
flourish. This is particularly salient in a borderless knowledge economy. For the past …

Phonemic awareness (PA) accounts for individual differences in early reading achievement
in English as a first language (L1), but its effect generally fades with age. However, in …

Learning Chinese characters could be challenging for many CSL learners due to the
distinction in orthographic features between the Chinese written system and their first …

Reading is a commonly offered course in many second and foreign language curricula for
different age groups, yet it is not a skill easily acquired by students. Given the centrality of …

This study assessed language learners' perceptions of an instructional approach to literary
reading in the second language. The approach under investigation is based on a Web …

Reading is as important a skill for first language (L1) users as it is for second language (L2)
learners, particularly in this internet era, where texts are widely available in both print and …