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Abu-Snoubar, Tamador Khalaf – English Language Teaching, 2017
This quantitative study aimed to investigate and compare the use of metacognitive reading Strategies among English as a foreign language students at Al-Balqa Applied University based on their academic field of study. The Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) (Mokhtari & Sheory, 2002) was the instrument employed. This survey divides the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Instruction
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Al-Ghazo, Abeer – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of met cognitive strategies on reading comprehension among Jordanian university students. The participants of this research consists of two classes of English Course , Level one with 60 students, 30 in the control group and 30 in the experimental group. Then, Metacognitive reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Direct Instruction, Metacognition, English (Second Language)
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Albashtawi, Abeer H.; Jaganathan, Paramaswari; Singh, Manjet – Higher Education Studies, 2016
This study aimed to investigate the linguistic knowledge aspect in academic reading, the challenges and the deployed strategies by English major undergraduates at a Jordanian institution of higher education. The importance of the study is attributed to the importance of the academic reading at university which is closely related to the academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Alhabahba, Mohammad Madallh; Pandian, Ambigapathy; Mahfoodh, Omer Hassan Ali – Issues in Educational Research, 2016
This quasi-experimental study examined the contribution of concept-oriented reading instruction (CORI) on fifth grade students' reading comprehension, motivation and metacognition. Participants were sixty-six fifth grade female Jordanian students who matched in gender, socioeconomic status, number of years learning English, and school attended.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Integrated Activities, Quasiexperimental Design, Reading Instruction