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Jalilehvand, Maryam; Samuel, Moses – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2014
Based on the schema theory, it has been found that the background knowledge of males and females differs. This difference in background knowledge can affect the students' reading comprehension. In Iran, although boys and girls study in different schools, they follow the same curricula and syllabuses in all the schools. The present article reports…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Second Language Learning, Reading Processes, Schemata (Cognition)