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Study abroad is now both an international industry and an experience that can have a deep impact on students’ linguistic, cultural and personal development. This book explores ‘the social turn’ in the fields of study abroad and language learning strategies. The longitudinal qualitative study reported in this volume investigates the international educational experiences of Arab university students from diverse countries (Iraq, Libya, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and the United Arab Emirates) and represents one of the few empirical studies to capture an in-depth understanding of the study abroad experiences of newly-arrived international students in higher education. Particular attention is paid to their changing learning goals, underlying motivations and strategy uses during their attendance on both short and long academic programmes in a study abroad context. It also examines their past language learning experiences in their homelands retrospectively. Readers will gain a better understanding of international students’ study abroad experiences in terms of their expectations, aspirations, diverse difficulties and the strategies they deploy to deal with these difficulties.

Students, Foreign --- Education, Higher --- Foreign study --- International study --- Study abroad --- Studying abroad --- Education --- Social aspects --- Arab students. --- EFL. --- Intercultural communication. --- International students. --- Language learning strategies. --- SLA. --- Sociocultural perspectives. --- future self. --- future visions. --- higher education. --- identities. --- language acquisition. --- language learning goals. --- motivation. --- strategy use. --- study abroad experiences. --- study abroad.

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Reading fluency has been identified as a key component of proficient reading. Research has consistently demonstrated significant and substantial correlations between reading fluency and overall reading achievement. Despite the great potential for fluency to have a significant outcome on students’ reading achievement, it continues to be not well understood by teachers, school administrators and policy makers. The chapters in this volume examine reading fluency from a variety of perspectives. The initial chapter sketches the history of fluency as a literacy instruction component. Following chapters examine recent studies and approaches to reading fluency, followed by chapters that explore actual fluency instruction models and the impact of fluency instruction. Assessment of reading fluency is critical for monitoring progress and identifying students in need of intervention. Two articles on assessment, one focused on word recognition and the other on prosody, expand our understanding of fluency measurement. Finally, a study from Turkey explores the relationship of various reading competencies, including fluency, in an integrated model of reading. Our hope for this volume is that it may spark a renewed interest in research into reading fluency and fluency instruction and move toward making fluency instruction an even more integral part of all literacy instruction.

Language --- curriculum-based measurement --- fluency --- silent reading --- word recognition skills --- item response theory --- interventions --- oral reading fluency --- reading comprehension --- reading difficulties --- systematic review --- struggling readers --- reading motivation --- learning support --- socioeconomic status --- reading intervention --- reading fluency --- prosody --- NAEP --- MDFS --- spectrographic measurement --- KAPS model --- comprehension strategy use --- background knowledge --- repeated reading --- wide reading --- challenging texts --- oral reading --- academic achievement --- comprehension --- reading --- fluency development lesson --- curriculum-based measurement --- fluency --- silent reading --- word recognition skills --- item response theory --- interventions --- oral reading fluency --- reading comprehension --- reading difficulties --- systematic review --- struggling readers --- reading motivation --- learning support --- socioeconomic status --- reading intervention --- reading fluency --- prosody --- NAEP --- MDFS --- spectrographic measurement --- KAPS model --- comprehension strategy use --- background knowledge --- repeated reading --- wide reading --- challenging texts --- oral reading --- academic achievement --- comprehension --- reading --- fluency development lesson