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Direct linkZadkhast, Mahtab; Rezvani, Ehsan; Lotfi, Ahmad Reza – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
The current study set out to investigate the effects of concurrent group dynamic assessment (GDA) and cumulative GDA on Iranian EFL learners' development of reading comprehension micro-skills. To this end, a convenience sample of 60 intermediate undergraduate EFL university students that were selected based on the results of a placement test and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students
Maghsoudi, Mojtaba – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
L2 learners, when reading in L2 have access to their L1 literacy as a repertoire of reading strategy in L1. The main purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent awareness of reading strategies in L1 (strategy) and general proficiency in L2 (proficiency) contribute to reading comprehension ability in L2 (reading) and how it would differ…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Strategies, Reading Skills
Ghavamnia, Maedeh – Reading Psychology, 2019
The purpose of this mixed-method investigation was to examine the effect of explicit instruction of cognitive strategies on the reading performance of Iranian graduate students and identify the cognitive strategies the participants used while reading a scientific article in English (L2). Prior to the study, the students completed a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Teaching Methods, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
Talebi, Seyed Hassan; Maghsoudi, Mojtaba; Khodamoradi, Abolfazl – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2020
The current study, which is descriptive and correlational in design, intends to find out if, (a) Iranian university learners of English, Russian, and Arabic as foreign languages have the same patterns of reading strategy awareness and use (RSAU), and (b) their self-perceived reading ability correlates with their RSAU level. English, Russian, and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Correlation, College Students
Download full textSabzehparvar, Alireza – Online Submission, 2021
This research investigated the relationship between reading maturity, reading strategy use, and gender with Iranian EFL undergraduates' reading comprehension. The results revealed that the most preferred strategies were cognitive in nature. Moreover, the Iranian EFL undergraduates were intellectually enriched by most of what they read and enjoy…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Babapour, Maryam; Ahangari, Saeideh; Ahour, Touran – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
Reading comprehension is a key skill that can influence the learning outcome and further language development. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of two types of reading interventions, Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) and Shadow Reading (SHR), on EFL learners' reading comprehension across two proficiency levels. To…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Nasrollahi, Mohammad Ali; Krishnasamy, Pramela Kris N.; Noor, Noorizah Mohd – Online Submission, 2015
Critical reading refers the way in which the students and teachers interact in the classroom to practice a higher form of comprehension. The study focuses on the introduction of critical reading strategies, and attempts to show how much Iranian EFL student use the level of thinking (analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) as expounded in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Reading, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
Marashi, Hamid; Bagheri, Nazanin – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2015
This study investigated the comparative impact of two types of teaching techniques, namely concept mapping and paraphrasing, on the reading comprehension of EFL learners. For this purpose, 60 learners of a total number of 90 intermediate learners studying at a language school in Karaj, Iran, were chosen through taking a piloted PET for…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Reading Comprehension, Content Analysis, Language Processing
Karimi, Mohammad Nabi; Shabani, Mohammad Bagher – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
Recently, reading researchers have come to assume that the ability to synthesize units of information across multiple texts on a topic by comparing, contrasting, synthesizing, integrating, and building a mental representation of them--referred to as multiple-documents literacy--is a far more required literacy in the present knowledge societies…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
