the current study is an attempt to investigate the particular role learners' vocabulary knowledge plays in their reading comprehension performance. it intends to determine whether breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge are related to efl learners' reading comprehension, and to investigate which one of these variables, that is, depth or breadth of vocabulary knowledge, makes a more important ...

Abstract The present study investigated the effect of blended online and face-to-face instruction on the use of reading strategies by Iranian EFL learners. Out of 100 pre-selected learners, 60 homogeneous participants were identified as intermediate, according to their scores on the Oxford Placement Test. The participants were assigned to experimental (n=30) and control (n=30) groups. Then, a p...

The present study seeks to investigate the potentiality of the translation task as a testing method for measuring reading comprehension. To achieve this objective, two types of translation tests, open-ended and multiple-choice tests, and two types of reading comprehension tests, multiple-choice reading comprehension and open-ended cloze tests were developed in this study. The reliability of the...

The present study investigated the relationship between personality traits and multiple intelligences, and learners’ reading proficiency. To this end, 384 graduate EFL students participated in the present study. Two questionnaires, namely the NEO personality inventory-revised, and McKenzie’s (1999) MI inventory as well as a sample TOFEL reading comprehension test were used to collect the data. ...

in the context of comparative and intercultural philosophy the approach and engagement of one philosopher with another, is a very basic issue. with regard to this, i want to narrate farabi’s special engagement with the meno and gorgias dialogues of plato. his engagement can be named hermeneutic dialectical reading-here hermeneutic means the relation of farabi with the meno and gorgias texts and...

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...

Researches of more than two decades has affirmed the importance of phonological awareness and its relation to reading acquisition. Chard & Dickson (1999) consider phonological awareness as a "cognitive substrate to reading acquisition" (p.1). This article explains Phonological awareness and its relation to reading acquisition.