The objectives of this study were to investigate Engineering students’ attitudes and problems in academic reading comprehension and to determine the contribution of academic reading attitude, breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge to academic reading comprehension. The participants were 122 undergraduate students of Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology. The Vocabulary Lev...

this paper reports the results of a study designed to investigate the interrelationship of foreign language reading anxiety (flra), reading proficiency (rp) and text feature awareness (tfa). the aim was to focus on how foreign language reading anxiety and text feature awareness are related and how, in turn, they affect students reading proficiency. that is, it south to determine how these three...

this study investigated if different response formats (test methods) measure reading comprehension of expository text differently. the study was conducted with 48 semester 6 tesl students at a university in selangor, malaysia. these students received an expository passage having descriptive rhetorical structure followed by three response formats, namely, incomplete outline, graphic organizer, a...

Motivation is one of the important factors which impacts greatly on language learning. One of the most important factors which receives the special focus in foreign language teaching is reading motivation. More recently, studies on reading motivation have also gained much interest. This review paper is going to consider the impact of reading motivation on reading comprehension. In this paper, t...

The borders of adaptation studies are constantly in flux, with scholars keen to discover new perspectives and methodologies, examine forms push boundaries across disciplines. Despite these calls, however, there have been few inquiries which actively analysed the liminal script, caught between betwixt literary work film. To this end, article takes a contrapuntal approach – tearing down disciplin...

The present study investigated the potential of implementing reading strategy instruction in raising learner readers' awareness of reading strategies,  extending the range of strategies they employed and enhancing their reading comprehension ability. To conduct the study, 90 female pre-university students majoring in Natural Sciences were selected based on a convenient sampling procedure. After...

the purpose of this paper was to see whether any significant relationship exists among efl learners’ autonomy, left/right brain dominance, and reading comprehension of the academic reading and general reading modules of ielts examination. to this end, 100 female efl learners were randomly selected from those who were attending ielts preparatory courses at a language school in tehran. all partic...