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September 10, 2025Reading in a foreign language

The reader-text-writer interaction: L2 Japanese learners' responses toward graded readers

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MTMitsue Tabata-Sandom

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Overview

Research reveals students' positive response to lexical simplification in graded readers, indicating its role in reading fluency for Japanese learners.

Key Points

  • Most participants indicated a positive response to lexical simplification in graded readers, supporting reading fluency.
  • Less proficient learners reacted favorably to the writers' communicative intent, while advanced learners showed negative perceptions.
  • The study emphasizes that graded readers can enhance reading fluency for learners of Japanese by providing meaningful input.
  • Explicit teaching of the efficacy of graded readers maximizes their potential as effective resources for language learning.

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Mitsue Tabata-Sandom (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c23d81b210217d6478e91chttps://doi.org/10.64152/10125/66871
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