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Download full textStern, Jonathan M. B.; Piper, Benjamin – RTI International, 2019
This paper uses recent evidence from international early grade reading programs to provide guidance about how best to create appropriate targets and more effectively identify improved program outcomes. Recent results show that World Bank and US Agency for International Development-funded large-scale international education interventions in low-…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students, Reading Programs, Program Design
AlSaleem, Basmah Issa Ahmad – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
This study investigated the impact of using suggested e-activities via social networks (Facebook) in enhancing linguistic skills (reading comprehension skills) for Arabic Language learners who speak other languages in the Arabic for Speakers of Other Languages Centre at The World Islamic Sciences and Education University, Jordan. Participants of…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Electronic Learning, Social Networks, Social Media
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)
Mohaidat, Mohammad Mahmoud Talal – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study aimed to investigate the impact of the electronic mind map (IMindMap) on the development of reading comprehension among the ninth grade students in Jordan. The sample of the study consisted of two ninth grade sections from two public schools in Irbid First Directorate during the academic 2016-2017. Each section consisted of (30)…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Teaching Methods
Migdadi, Ali Ibrahim Mohammad; Baniabdelrahman, Abdallah – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2016
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of using team-teaching strategy on EFL students' reading comprehension. It also aimed to find out whether Team-Teaching strategy can improve EFL students' English language reading comprehension and to investigate the students' attitudes towards the use of team teaching. The study used the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Team Teaching, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Direct linkAlhabahba, 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
Abu-Hamour, Bashir; Al-Hmouz, Hanan; Kenana, Mohammed – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2013
This study facilitates the use of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) to investigate the effect of short vowels on oral reading fluency (ORF) and silent reading comprehension in Arabic orthography. A total sample of 131 fifth-grade students (89 skilled readers and 42 poor readers) participated in the study. Two kinds of CBM probes were…
Descriptors: Vowels, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Silent Reading
Abdelrahman, Mahmoud Sulaiman Hamad Bani; Bsharah, Muwafaq Saleem – English Language Teaching, 2014
This study aimed to find the effect of speed reading strategies on developing reading comprehension among second secondary literary stream students in English language. The sample of the study consists of (42) students assigned into two groups who were chosen randomly from schools, a controlled group (21) students, and an experimental (21)…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
Al-Hajaya, Nail; Al-Khresheh, Taisir – International Education Studies, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate cognitive learning style-based reading program on the achievement of Jordanian freshmen English majors. The subjects of the study consisted of 104 freshmen English majors enrolled for Reading Skills 1 in Tafila Technical University in Jordan in the fall semester 2007/2008. Students' learning styles,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Style, Reading Programs, Reading Achievement
Baniabdelrahman, Abdallah Ahmad – TESL-EJ, 2010
This study investigates the effect of Jordanian Eleventh grade students' self-assessment on their performance in reading in English. The sample of the study consisted of an experimental group and a control group; each group consisted of two eleventh grade sections (67 male and 69 female students). A reading test was developed and its validity and…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests
Jallad, Nasreen Y.; Bani Abdelrahman, Abdallah A. – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2008
This study aimed at investigating the effect of multiple intelligences strategies comprising logical-mathematical intelligence, verbal-linguistic intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence and interpersonal intelligence on ninth grade students' reading comprehension achievement in an EFL setting. The population of the study consisted of all ninth…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Multiple Intelligences, Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries
Hamdan, Jihad; Diab, Turki – 1997
A study examined the role of the native language (Arabic) in assessing the reading comprehension of learners of English as a second language. Subjects were 60 secondary school students in two comparable classes in Jordan. After receiving instruction for one month using reading material in the prescribed textbook, students were administered a…
Descriptors: Arabic, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction
