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EAL reading growth during and beyond an undergraduate transition program: a 4-year longitudinal eye-movement study

Previous research has shown that the reading abilities of learners of English as an additional language (EALs) become stronger during pre-sessional English for academic purposes (EAP) programs. However, it is not known what happens to the reading …

DerLex: An eye-movement database of derived word reading in English

This paper introduces a new database of eye-tracking data on English derived words, DerLex. A total of 598 unique derived suffixed words were embedded in sentences and read by 357 participants representing both university convenience pools and …

Bridging to academic success: the impact of reading gains in an English bridging program on GPAs

Although research has established that students enrolled in pre-sessional English for academic purposes (EAP) programs make gains in English reading ability, the evidence base for whether gains made during this period of instruction make a difference …

A psycholinguistic study of intergroup bias and its cultural propagation

Intergroup bias is the tendency for people to inflate positive regard for their in-group and derogate the out-group. Across two online experiments (N = 922) this study revisits the methodological premises of research on language as a window into …

Reading experience drives L2 reading speed development: a longitudinal study of EAL reading habits

The present longitudinal study tested the hypotheses that (i) learners become faster readers after intensive English language instruction, and that (ii) learners who read more English texts tend to make larger gains in reading speed. Study …

Tracking reading development in an English language university-level bridging program: evidence from eye-movements during passage reading

Increasing numbers of international students enter university education via English language bridging programs. Much research has overlooked the nature of second language reading development during a bridging program, focusing instead on the …

Conceptual combination during novel and existing compound word reading in context: A self-paced reading study

According to the relation-interpretation-competition-evaluation (RICE) hypothesis, compound word processing involves selecting a relational meaning (e.g., *moonlight* is ‘light from moon’) from a larger set of competing possible relational meanings. …

Semantic Richness Effects in Isolated Spoken Word Recognition: Evidence From Massive Auditory Lexical Decision

While known to influence visual lexical processing, the semantic information we associate with words has recently been found to influence auditory lexical processing as well. The present work explored the influence of *semantic richness* in auditory …

Morphological knowledge in English learner university students is sensitive to language statistics: A longitudinal study

Exposure to statistical patterns of language use affects language production and comprehension. In this longitudinal study of English language learner (ELL) university students, we examined the interplay between language experience and language …

Determinants of Word-Reading Development in English Learner University Students: A Longitudinal Eye Movement Study

We investigated the word-reading development of adult second-language learners of English. A sample of 70 (Mandarin or Cantonese) Chinese-speaking students enrolled in a university-level English bridging program at a Canadian university silently read …