abstract the present study was carried out to investigate the effect of short stories on students’ reading comprehension, vocabulary power and attitude towards the skill and the new instructional materials. the participants of the study were 120 grade 9 students of dilla secondary and preparatory school. in order to gather data for the study, pre- and posttest of reading comprehension, pre and ...

This paper studies how constraints are applied to the score in a musical constraint satisfaction problem (CSP). How can we control which variable sets in the score are affected by a given constraint? Our overall objective is to produce a highly generic music constraint system, where users can define a wide range of musical CSPs, including rhythmic, harmonic, melodic and contrapuntal problems. E...

A fundamental necessity at postgraduate level is a developed strategic reading skill that permits digesting tremendous amounts of technical academic content. The need is more paramount for EFL contexts and postgraduate students majoring in English Language Teaching (ELT) and English Literature (EL) most of whom will ultimately search a career in teaching.  The aim of the present ex-post facto s...

To examine how gender functions in the narrative construction of dual career styles, and these styles impact (dis)continuation a pathway. Longitudinal qualitative study. Life story interviews with 18 talented Finnish athletes (10 cis women, 8 men) at four points time – when they averaged 16, 17, 19, 20 years age followed by an integrative narrative-discursive analysis. (a) contrapuntal style wa...

Readers The challenge of understanding reading comprehension derives, in part, from the difficulty of defining its borders. Comprehension was defined by the Research and Development (RAND) Reading Study Group (RRSG, 2002) as ‘‘the process of simultaneously constructing and extracting meaning through interaction and engagement with print.’’ This definition was intended to signal the importance o...