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Teaching Mathematics Based on Integrating Reading Strategies and Working Memory in Elementary School
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Download full textFarideh Hamidi; Shokoofeh Soleymani; Sara Dazy; Maryam Meshkat – Athens Journal of Education, 2024
This study strived to determine the effectiveness of integrative teaching of reading strategies and working memory on basic math and problem-solving skills. It is a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest study carried out on 50 second-graders from Chahashk Shandiz village in the academic year of 2020-2021 who were randomly selected by cluster…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Reading Strategies, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
Bahrami, Samaneh; Rahimy, Ramin – HOW, 2022
This study aimed to probe whether using the backward summary technique led to reading comprehension enhancement among non-English major university students at the Islamic Azad University of Babol, located in Babol city, in the North of Iran. 120 B.S. level nursing and microbiology students were randomly selected from a population of non-English…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Direct linkMohseni, Fatemeh; Seifoori, Zohreh; Ahangari, Saeideh – Cogent Education, 2020
The present quasi-experimental research aimed to examine the differential effect of metacognitive strategy training and critical thinking awareness-raising on EFL learners' reading comprehension of general reading (GR), cause and effect (CE), and argumentative (ARG) texts. The study set to investigate the extent to which raising Iranian EFL…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mohammadi, Roya Ranjbar; Saeidi, Mahnaz; Ahangari, Saeideh – Cogent Education, 2020
Self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies have gained a great prominence in second language reading comprehension; however, to have a comprehensive picture of their efficacy, this study investigated the significant relationships among SRL components, reading comprehension and reading problem solving. Moreover, it examined the effects of SRL…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning
Salimi, Esmaeel Ali; Mirian, Elham Sadat – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2019
This mix-method research attempts at extending our knowledge about the impact of L1 glossing (Persian) for abstract words on reading comprehension in English. It also examines learners' attitudes towards abstract glossed words while engaged in reading. Sixty students in Iranian language institutes were recruited to participate in the quantitative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Babapour, Maryam; Ahangari, Saeideh; Ahour, Touran – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
Reading comprehension is a key skill that can influence the learning outcome and further language development. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of two types of reading interventions, Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) and Shadow Reading (SHR), on EFL learners' reading comprehension across two proficiency levels. To…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Anvari, Sahar; Farvardin, Mohammad Taghi – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2016
There are many questions about how EFL learners infer word meanings from context and what distinguishes successful from less successful inferencers. This study explored the lexical inferencing strategies used by EFL learners and the characteristics which distinguish successful from less successful inferencers. To this end, 15 EFL students in an…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Moghaddam, Nahid Nemati; Mahmoudi, Asgar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This study investigated the effects of three types of pre-reading activities (movie-watching, vocabulary presentation, and pre-reading summarization) on the reading comprehension of 76 elementary-level EFL Iranian learners. The participants were randomly assigned to one control and three experimental conditions and then a pretest was given to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension
Marashi, Hamid; Bagheri, Nazanin – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2015
This study investigated the comparative impact of two types of teaching techniques, namely concept mapping and paraphrasing, on the reading comprehension of EFL learners. For this purpose, 60 learners of a total number of 90 intermediate learners studying at a language school in Karaj, Iran, were chosen through taking a piloted PET for…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Reading Comprehension, Content Analysis, Language Processing
Bakhshalinezhad, Ladan; Nikou, Farahnaz Reymani; Bonyadi, Alireza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This study explored the reading strategies used by advanced and intermediate Persian EFL learners in both English and Persian reading comprehension texts. Based on the aims of the study reading comprehension texts were administered to the learners and their reading strategies in both English and Persian reading comprehension texts were examined…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Protocol Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Indo European Languages
Keshavarz, Mohammad H.; Ghamoushi, Masoume – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Some researchers argue that linguistic knowledge of one's native language facilitates the acquisition of additional languages (see, for example, Cenoz & Valencia, 1994; Grenfell & Harris, 2006; Hakuta, 1990; Keshavarz & Astaneh, 2004). To contribute to this line of research, the present study investigated the probability of significant…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Bilingualism
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)
