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...

We investigated how auditory information affected the speed of silent reading, using sentences extracted from Japanese novels. Subjects were instructed to read the sentences silently presented on a display while hearing the voice of reading through headphones and we measured the reading time and eye movements. The speed of the reading voice varied over the range of a factor of eight to examine ...

PURPOSE To develop and validate 28 short Italian sentences for the construction of the Italian version of the Radner Reading Chart to simultaneously measure near visual acuity and reading speed. METHODS 41 sentences were constructed in Italian language, following the procedure defined by Radner, to obtain "sentence optotypes" with comparable structure and with the same lexical and grammatical...

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 generalreading modules of ielts examination. to this end, 100 female efl learners were randomly selectedfrom those who were attending ielts preparatory courses at a language school in tehran. allparticipan...

Background and Objective: Oxidative stress plays an important role in the pathogensis of various diseases, including lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and atherosclerosis. Total antioxidant capacity plays a significant role in the body’s antioxidant defense, so its assessment is a matter of the utmost importance. Currently, assessment of this capacity is performed in var...