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Download full textGilakjani, Abbas Pourhosein; Sabouri, Narjes Banou – English Language Teaching, 2016
Listening is one of the most important skills in English language learning. When students listen to English language, they face a lot of listening difficulties. Students have critical difficulties in listening comprehension because universities and schools pay more attention to writing, reading, and vocabulary. Listening is not an important part…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Listening Skills, English (Second Language), Listening Comprehension
International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2016
PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) is the fourth assessment in the current trend series, following PIRLS 2001, 2006, and 2011. There were 61 participants in PIRLS 2016, including 50 countries and 11 benchmarking entities (e.g., regions of countries as well as additional grades or language groups from the participating…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Grade 4
Direct linkGhabanchi, Zargham; Mirza, Fateme Haji – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2010
This study examined the effect of summarization as a generative learning strategy of the readers' performance on reading comprehension, in general, and reading comprehension display, referential and inferential questions in particular. The subjects in this study were 61 high school students. They were assigned to two groups--control and…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Learning Strategies
Zoghi, Masoud; Mustapha, Ramlee; Maasum, Tg. Nor Rizan Mohd. – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2010
The present study was an attempt to probe into the feasibility and effectiveness of a reading instructional approach called MCSR--Modified Collaborative Strategic Reading. Based on a pretest-posttest design, MCSR was implemented with 42 university-level EFL freshmen. They met once a week and received EFL reading instruction according to MCSR for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Student Attitudes
Razmjoo, Seyyed Ayatollah; Movahed, Majid – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2009
The primary objective of the present study was to investigate the relationship between language proficiency and socio-cultural factors among the Iranian MA students registered and entered at Shiraz University in 2008. The second objective was to explore whether or not one or a combination of socio-cultural factors are predictors of language…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Reading Comprehension, Student Placement, Achievement Tests
Fotovatian, Sepideh; Shokrpour, Nasrin – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2007
Knowledge of the strategies used by English as a foreign language (EFL) or second language (ESL) readers can help instructors teach these techniques and thereby enhance their students' reading comprehension. The present study compared three categories of reading comprehension strategies (metacognitive, cognitive, and socio-affective) to determine…
Descriptors: Inferences, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
Shokrpour, Nasrin; Fotovatian, Sepide – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2006
To enhance reading comprehension, several strategies have been identified in previous research conducted (Naiman et al. 1978; O'Malley & Chamot 1990; O'Malley, Chamot, Manzanares, Russo and Kypper 1985; Politzer and McGroarty 1985; Prokop 1989; Oxford 1990; Salataci and Akyel 2002; Tercanlioglu 2004). However, using different types of Reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Inferences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Shahheidaripour, Gholamabbass – Online Submission, 2000
Background: Persian English learners committed mistakes and errors which were due to insufficient knowledge of different senses of the words and collocational structures they formed. Purpose: The study reported here was conducted for a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for The Master of Arts degree, School of Graduate…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Comprehension, Interlanguage
Modirkhamene, Sima – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
The present study examines the possible effects of bilinguality on third language learning among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners with a focus on reading comprehension proficiency achievement. This study is a longitudinal survey of EFL learners in Urmia University in Azerbaijan, Iran, during 2002-2004. It compared 56 Turkish-Persian…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries
