New Reading Activities

Improving reading rate activities for EFL students: Timed reading and repeated oral reading

This study investigates the effect of timed reading (TR) and repeated oral reading (RR) on 35 adult students of English as a foreign language. Students in the TR (n =18) and RR (n =17) groups read 52 and 26 passages respectively over a 13-week period. Reading rates and comprehension levels were measured at three occasions: pre-intervention, postintervention, and delayed post-intervention. The r...

The Effects of Gender Differences and Schema-Based Pre-reading Activities on Reading Comprehension Skill

This study was designed to investigate the effects of gender and Schema-based pre-reading activities on the Iranian EFL learners’ reading comprehension. The sample consisted of 60 male and female students studying at second-grade high school in Abhar city. Two reading passages (“Charles Dickens and the Little Children”, and “Hic, Hic, Hic”) were randomly selected from second-grade English textb...

the effects of cooperative versus individual directed reading thinking activities on students inferential and referential questions

two groups of students were assigned as experimental and control ones, and were given instruction on directed reading-thinking activities and after some treatment, they were post-tested. although the initial pre-test did not show any significant differences, the final post-test result revealed that the cooperative reading comprehension helped the experimental group. the cooperative students’...

Voluntary Reading 1 The Effects of a Voluntary Summer Reading Intervention on Reading Activities and Reading Achievement

Modeling brain activities during reading working memory task : Comparison between reciting Quran and reading book

Muslim believe that each Islam practice has its advantages and benefits in many different ways. This paper discussed an analysis of Electroencephalogram (EEG) signal of the resting state and calming mind during reading (reciting) Quran. The data collection of this study involves four different conditions, which are before reciting the Quran, before reading a book, during reciting the Quran and ...