Now in its third edition, Teaching and Researching Reading charts the field of reading (first
and second language) systematically and coherently for the benefit of language teaching …

This study investigates the effects of the text difficulty of extensive reading materials on the
reading comprehension and reading motivation of English as a foreign language (EFL) …

Over the past decade, there has been an enormous upsurge in the use of educational apps
in primary schools. However, few studies have examined how children interact with these …

The authors address instruction in morphological analysis, a vocabulary‐learning approach
that involves teaching students the meanings of affixes (prefixes and suffixes) and word …

This chapter examines the reciprocal relation between intelligence and achievement,
particularly within academic domains such as verbal ability and mathematical ability. In …

This qualitative study focused on high school social studies teachers' understandings of and
perspectives about vocabulary acquisition and instruction. The research questions were the …

This chapter focuses on 15 principles that can guide teachers in designing reading curricula
and planning for effective L2 reading instruction. The 15 principles are organized into three …

The authors develop the concept of teaching vocabulary for application (TVA) as a
component of comprehensive vocabulary instruction. TVA is instruction that focuses on …

Concepts, conversation, collaboration—vocabulary instruction is so much more than lists of
words. More is more when it comes to students' vocabulary knowledge, and in The …

Active Learning is a constructivist approach based on the student-centred teaching
perspective, but even though it is a method useful for promoting student engagement, for …