Collaborative Strategic Reading in EFL Reading Classroom

The Effect of Modified Collaborative Strategic Reading on EFL Learners' Reading Anxiety

The present study was an attempt to investigate the effectiveness of reading instructional approach called MCSR- Modified Collaborative Strategic Reading on reducing intermediate EFL learner's reading anxiety. Based on a pretest-posttest design, MCSR was implemented with 64 EFL learners at intermediate level. They received EFL reading instruction according to MCSR over two and a half months. A ...

Reading The Catcher in the Rye in the EFL Classroom

learner autonomy in a computer-assisted project-based efl reading classroom

آموزش برمبنای ذخیره اطلاعات ، دانشجویان را به عنوان افرادی غیر متفکر وغیرقابل کنترل می پندارد . در همین راستا ، خواندن در سیستم آموزشی برمبنای ذخیره اطلاعات ، مهارتی پنداشته می شود که می توان آن را با یاد گرفتن انفعالی وجداگانه تعدادی از مهارتهای جزیی فراگرفت . درآن سو خواندن در سیستم آموزشی برمبنای طرح مسآله ،به عنوان رفتاری نقادانه تلقی می شود که از طریق آن می توان دنیای فرای کلمات را کشف کرد...

Effects of Oral Reading on EFL Reading Comprehension

The present study compared two reading modes of oral and silent reading to investigate which mode was more advantageous for EFL reading comprehension. The participants were thirty-three Japanese university students. In the experiment, the participants read narrative passages orally and silently. After each reading, a comprehension test was given to see if they comprehend the contents of the pas...

EFL Learner Reading Time Model for Evaluating Reading Proficiency

We propose a reading time model for learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) that is based on a learner’s reading proficiency and the linguistic properties of sentences. Reading proficiency here refers to a learner’s reading score on the Test of English for International Communications (TOEIC), and the linguistic properties are the lexical, syntactic and discourse complexities of a sente...