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Meysam Muhammadpour; Masoud Khalili Sabet – Discover Education, 2024
Research suggests that English for Specific Purposes (ESP) students in English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) contexts have difficulties understanding the passages in technical English textbooks of various fields of study including computer software engineering. Few experimental studies to date have investigated the effect of an online hybrid reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Special Purposes, Computer Software, Textbooks
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Farideh 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
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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
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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
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Hassanpour, Masoumeh; Ghonsooly, Behzad; Nooghabi, Mehdi Jabbari; Shafiee, Mohammad Naser – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2017
This quasi-experimental study examined the relationship between students' metacognitive awareness and willingness to read English medical texts. So, a model was proposed and tested using structural equation modeling (SEM) with R software. Participants included 98 medical students of two classes. One class was assigned as the control group and the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Medical Education, Intervention
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Aghaie, Reza; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2012
This study explored the impact of explicit teaching of reading strategies on English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) students' reading performance in Iran. The study employed a questionnaire adapted from Chamot and O'Malley's (1994) cognitive and metacognitive strategies framework. To test the effects of explicit teaching of cognitive and…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Instructional Effectiveness, Intervention, Reading Instruction