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Nilforoushan, Somayeh; Rashtchi, Mojgan; Abbasian, Gholam-Reza – SAGE Open, 2023
This mixed methods study examined whether perceived metacognitive reading strategies differed in Iranian EFL learners with different reading abilities. It also compared their actual (real) utilization of metacognitive reading strategies in different English text types (narrative and expository). Four hundred Iranian university students studying…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Moradi, Elahe; Ghapanchi, Zargham; Pishghadam, Reza – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2023
This study aims to find the potential relationship between emotioncy (sense-induced emotions), reading strategy use, and reading comprehension test performance among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. To this end, 514 intermediate and upper-intermediate EFL learners were asked to complete a 30-item multiple-choice reading comprehension…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Reading Comprehension, Scores, Reading Tests
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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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Ali Amjadi; Seyed Hassan Talebi – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Implementing social-emotional learning skills into Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR), the current study intended to extend the efficacy of CSR for teaching reading strategies when applying it to students in rural areas from a working-class community. To this purpose, forty-four students who made the comparison and the experimental groups were…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Working Class, Reading Instruction, Males
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Hassan Nejadghanbar; Mahmood Reza Atai; Catherine Elizabeth Snow – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2024
Despite the importance of academic reading in higher education, the current literature lacks a valid instrument comprising different components of academic reading at a graduate level. This article reports on the development of an academic reading instrument for (Iranian) MA students of applied linguistics. To this end, based on a thorough review…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Applied Linguistics, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Zadkhast, Mahtab; Rezvani, Ehsan; Lotfi, Ahmad Reza – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
The current study set out to investigate the effects of concurrent group dynamic assessment (GDA) and cumulative GDA on Iranian EFL learners' development of reading comprehension micro-skills. To this end, a convenience sample of 60 intermediate undergraduate EFL university students that were selected based on the results of a placement test and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students
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Maghsoudi, Mojtaba – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
L2 learners, when reading in L2 have access to their L1 literacy as a repertoire of reading strategy in L1. The main purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent awareness of reading strategies in L1 (strategy) and general proficiency in L2 (proficiency) contribute to reading comprehension ability in L2 (reading) and how it would differ…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Strategies, Reading Skills
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Ali Amjadi – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
Over the last few years, technology has offered new ways of teaching and learning. Accordingly, educational systems are adopting what technology has purveyed to education. The abrupt upsurge of the COVID-19 pandemic also expedited this employment and impelled educational systems to shift to online teaching and learning. Consequently, the offline…
Descriptors: Test Format, Reading Comprehension, Computer Assisted Testing, Reading Strategies
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Tadayonifar, Mojtaba; Valizadeh, Mohammadreza; Entezari, Mahnaz; Bahraman, Mosfata – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
The current study explores the short- and long-term impacts of explicit reading strategy instruction for improving reading comprehension of students with different learning styles. Sixty Iranian EFL learners took part in this study. They took the Cambridge ECCE reading test as the pre-test and were divided into five groups according to learner…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Style
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Seifoori, Zohreh – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2020
A formidable challenge facing many Iranian postgraduate English students is critically negotiating their course content which entails a well-developed strategic competence. This quasi-experimental study examined the effect of negotiated strategic awareness-raising (NSA-raising) on English Language Teaching (ELT) and English Literature (EL)…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Retention (Psychology), Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Daftarifard, Parisa; Samadian, Tania – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2020
The present article reported an exploratory investigation into the nature of the reading comprehension strategies of English Foreign Language learners across proficiency levels. The aim of this study was to probe possible differences between elementary, intermediate, and expert readers' use of cluster strategy in the First Certificate English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Language Tests
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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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Ruhil Amal Azmuddin; Nurul Nadia Muhammad; Arulselvi Uthayakumaran; Hamizah Zahari – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Extracting information through online reading has become second nature to ESL students in higher institutions. Although online reading is indispensable among ESL university students, they lack the ability to read effectively. The present study examines students' metacognitive online reading strategies and how those strategies reflect understanding…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, College Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Bakhtiari, Vista – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2020
The aim of the present study is to explore the impact of the cognitive reading strategy instruction on learners' reading self-efficacy and their reading achievement. In order to fulfill this purpose, from 120 participants, 90 intermediate EFL learners as an experimental group were chosen from three different educational settings namely, Yazd…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Instructional Effectiveness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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