Reading Performance, Reading Gender: Early Encounters with Beaumont and Fletcher’s <i>The Scornful Lady</i> in Print

Computer Assisted Reading (CAR) versus Traditional Print Format in EFL Academic Reading Comprehension

Reading the metabolic fine print

Barely a decade has passed since the term metabolomics—the systemic analysis of the chemical ‘fingerprints’ of specific cellular processes—made its debut in the scientific literature (Oliver et al, 1998), but its application in medicine goes back to the Middle Ages, when doctors used to diagnose diseases by the colour and smell of the patient’s urine. However, modern-day metabolomics started in...

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...

Reading the Fine Print: Evaluating Discrepancies in Print Reading Disability Statistics

In recent years, data from two national surveys have been used to generate estimates of the prevalence of visual impairment from a print reading disability measure: the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) of the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) of the Census Bureau. These estimates differ substantially. According to the 1991-92...

Computer assisted reading (CAR) versus traditional print format in EFL academic reading comprehension

In this study two modes of reading (CAR and Print reading mode) were compared with regard to their effectiveness for L2 reading comprehension. A group of 120 English major students were divided into three classes: CAR, Print reading, and Control. Based on the English proficiency scores each class was divided into two groups (high and low levels of proficiency). Three classes were taught by the ...