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Saleem Mohd Nasim; Sherif Mohammad Sayed Mohamed; Muhammad Nadeem Anwar; Muhammad Ishtiaq; Syeda Mujeeba – Cogent Education, 2024
This study investigates the efficacy of the web-based Cooperative Integrated Reading Composition (CIRC) technique in developing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) reading comprehension skills among first-year prep Experimental Language School learners. The research aims to address the low performance of students in EFL reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Web Based Instruction
Elghotmy, Heba Elsayed Abdelsalam – Online Submission, 2018
The current study aims to investigate the effect of sheltered instruction strategies on developing EFL first year secondary stage students' reading comprehension skills. Seventy EFL first year secondary stage students were randomly assigned into two groups; experimental (n=35) and control (n=35). The experimental group used sheltered instruction…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
El-Koumy, Abdel Salam Abdel Khalek – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of homogeneous versus heterogeneous reading-style grouping on EFL students' non-preferred reading style and reading comprehension. The study used a pretest-posttest experimental design. The original subjects of the study (N=86) were Egyptian English major senior students during the 2005/2006…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Style, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Heterogeneous Grouping
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Nelson, Gayle L. – Journal of Reading, 1987
Reports findings of a study involving adult, college-educated Egyptians enrolled in English as a second language courses in Cairo. Concludes that students learning to read in a second language interpret materials in terms of their own culture, which affects their comprehension. (FL)
Descriptors: Adults, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, English (Second Language)
El-Koumy, Abdel Salam Abdel Khalek – Online Submission, 2006
A study investigated the effects of the Directed Reading Thinking Activity on Egyptian first-year secondary stage EFL students' referential and inferential reading comprehension. The study utilized a pretest-posttest control group experimental design. The subjects consisted of 72 first-year secondary students in Menouf Secondary School for Boys at…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Research Design
Beall, Kathleen R., Ed. – ESL Magazine, 2001
The six issues in this volume include the following articles: "Preview of TESOL 2001" (Adelaide Heyde Parsons); "Six Internet Pioneers Teach English to the World" (Dennis Oliver, Randall Davis, Elaine Hoter, Charles Kelly, Dave Sperling, and Ruth Vilmi); "Integrated Skills in the ESL/EFL Classroom" (Rebecca Oxford);…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Adults, Career Exploration, Classroom Techniques