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Waleed Ahmed Nureldeen; Hala Alsabatinb; Abdalmuttaleb Al-Sartawi; Reda S.M. Al-Mawadieh – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
The English reading ability of university students is crucial for their academic achievement, regardless of whether they are studying English or any other subject in English. Examining the affective factors that influence this ability is critical for understanding its development. Research has been conducted on the correlation between first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, English (Second Language), Arabic
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Langsten, Ray; Abdelkhalek, Fatma; Hassan, Tahra – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
Egypt has long promised quality basic education. Nevertheless, international and national assessments show poor reading skills. Community schools (CS) are a component of Egypt's Education for All strategy. CS were intended to offer quality education to children who otherwise would have no chance to complete primary school. Previous studies report…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabic, Language Skills, Public Schools
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Ke, Sihui; Zhang, Dongbo – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This scoping review explores the causal relationship between morphological instruction and reading development in young L2 learners by synthesizing 12 primary studies published between 2004 and 2019 (N = 1,535). These studies focused on reading English as the target language and involved participants between kindergarten and Grade 12 from four…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Abdallah, Mahmoud M. S. – Online Submission, 2018
Currently language learning is being facilitated by social networks and microblogging, which emerged as a quite new form of communication and content sharing through which users can publish online some small pieces of digital content. This relates to connectivism, a learning theory that views learning as the process of creating connections and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Electronic Publishing
Mostafa, Amaal Ahmed – International Journal of Psycho-Educational Sciences, 2017
The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of using multiple intelligences on some basic Reading skills of first graders At-Risk for reading disabilities. 40 first grade children selected from two schools located within two elementary schools in Sharkyia Educational Edara participated in this study. The participants were selected…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, At Risk Students, Reading Skills, Reading Difficulties
Diab, Abeer Ali Mahmoud; Abdel-Haq, Iman Muhamad; Aly, Mahsoub Abdel-Sadeq – Online Submission, 2018
This study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of using the CLIL approach to develop student teachers' EFL receptive skills. The study followed a pre-post experimental one group design. The participants were 38 third year students enrolled in English Language section, Faculty of Education, Benha University. To determine the most important and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Language Teachers
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Salem, Ashraf Atta Mohamed Safein – English Language Teaching, 2017
The current study investigates whether English language teachers use scaffolding strategies for developing their students' reading comprehension skills or just for assessing their comprehension. It also tries to demonstrate whether teachers are aware of these strategies or they use them as a matter of habit. A questionnaire as well as structured…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Reading Comprehension
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Ghoneim, Nahed Mohammed Mahmoud; Elghotmy, Heba Elsayed Abdelsalam – English Language Teaching, 2015
The current study investigates the effect of a suggested multisensory phonics program on developing kindergarten pre-service teachers' EFL reading accuracy and phonemic awareness. A total of 40 fourth year kindergarten pre-service teachers, Faculty of Education, participated in the study that involved one group experimental design. Pre-post tests…
Descriptors: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Eissa, Mourad Ali – Online Submission, 2013
Phonological awareness is the ability to manipulate the individual speech sounds that make up connected speech. Little information is reported on the acquisition of phonological awareness in special populations. The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of a phonological awareness training intervention on pre-reading skills of…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Intervention, Reading Skills, Intellectual Disability
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Tahan, Sandy; Cline, Tony; Messaoud-Galusi, Souhila – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
This study explored the relationship among pre-reading skills, language proficiency, and visual perceptual abilities in 150 children who had been exposed to both English and Arabic (mean age 70 months). Information regarding language proficiency was gathered indirectly through reports from teachers and parents and directly through children's test…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Dominance, Phonology, Phonological Awareness
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Abdel halim, Safaa M. – International Journal of Educational Research, 2011
Surveying the existing situation and considering the pilot study conducted by the researcher, it was clear that there is a problem concerning weaknesses in critical reading and translation skills aside from the lack of political awareness on the part of fourth year EFL majors at the Faculty of Education, Helwan University. The majority of…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Critical Reading, Translation, Reading Skills
El-Koumy, Abdel Salam Abdel Khalek – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of classroom performance assessment on the EFL students' basic and inferential reading skills. A pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design was employed in the study. The subjects of the study consisted of 64 first-year secondary school students in Menouf Secondary School for Boys at Menoufya…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Check Lists
El-Koumy, Abdel Salam A. – 1997
A study investigated the relationship between reading and writing skills and their development in both native English-speakers (NES) and learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). Subjects were 150 NES students, English majors in American universities, and 150 EFL students enrolled in schools of education at four Egyptian universities. Data…
Descriptors: English, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Native Speakers
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Weir, Cyril J.; Porter, Don – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1994
Discusses the relevance for the valid testing of reading of the difference between a 'unitary skill' approach to reading and a multiskills approach. The article produces evidence suggesting that a distinction may be drawn between language-based skills and 'global' reading skills. (55 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Item Analysis, Language Fluency
El-Banna, Adel Ibrahim – 1987
A study compared the English language proficiency levels of three groups of non-native English-speakers who teach English as a second language (ESL) in Egypt. The three groups were: (1) graduates of a department that was not an English department; (2) graduates of English departments; and (3) seniors in one Egyptian university's English…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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