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Direct linkGhorbani Shemshadsara, Zahra; Ahour, Touran; Hadidi Tamjid, Nasrin – Cogent Education, 2019
Adopted innovative methodologies in teaching reading comprehension have been a topic of interest by reading scholars among which textual awareness raising seems to be effective in the reading classroom. Following this, the present study looked into the effect of reading instruction by raising the students' awareness of different expository text…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language)
Download full textMoradi, Sholeh; Ghahari, Shima; Abbas Nejad, Mohammad – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
Cognitive organizers (COs) are text aids which represent objects, concepts, and their relations by the use of symbols and spatial arrangements without adding to semantic content. The present study examines language learners' text comprehension through outlines, a popular CO, compared with text-only condition, and further investigates the effect of…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Saadatnia, Mahmood; Ketabi, Saeed; Tavakoli, Mansoor – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between text structure and two levels of reading comprehension, namely literal and inferential, in Iranian EFL learners. Studies have generally found that learners perform differently after they have read different text structures (Amiri et al. in "Proc Soc Behav Sci"…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Text Structure
Khaghaninejad, Mohammad Saber – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2014
This study was an attempt to investigate the possible effect of intertextuality-aware instruction of reading passages on a sample of intermediate EFL learners of both genders. First, the intertextuality deployed through the reading passages of the study's course-book was focused inspired by Fairclough's (192) framework in terms of genre, text…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Salmani Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2010
Rhetorical structure refers to a complex network of relationships and the way the underlying ideas are organized within a text. This study was conducted to see whether explicit instruction of descriptive and causative text organization positively affected L3 reading recall. 240 Turkish students of EFL who had Persian as their second language were…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
This paper underscores the effect of text cohesion on EFL reading comprehension. 160 EFL (n = 80) and non-EFL (n = 80) university students took two versions of a cloze test based on a passage of 750 words length one developed with every nth word deletion and the other with cohesive word deletion. The results of analyses of variance indicated that…
Descriptors: Success, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Cloze Procedure
