The paper investigates correlation of learners’ academic achievements with the application metacognitive reading strategies (MRS) by master students in EFL activities. study was conducted Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University. Data collected means focus groups interview and adapted scales MARSI questionnaire. highlighted research is a descriptive character; it has been comp...

In UIN Prof. K.H. Saifuddin Zuhri, most students, who had taken an English Proficiency Test at the beginning of academic year to recognize students' proficiency, did not achieve a passing grade (450 points) test. This condition drives institution improve student's proficiency through intensive language program that Language Development Unit organizes. The research uses descriptive study analyze...

A meta-analysis was performed to investigate the impact of extensive reading (ER) on reading proficiency. This study gathered 71 unique samples from 49 primary studies published from 1980 to 2014 involving a total of 5,919 participants. Effect sizes were generated separately according to two different study designs: experimental-versuscontrol contrasts and pre-to-post-test contrasts. Small to m...

this study was designed to investigate the effect of grammar and vocabulary pre-teaching, as two types of pre-reading activities, on the iranian efl learners’ reading comprehension from a schema–theoretic perspective. the sample consisted of 90 female students studying at pre-university centers of isfahan.  the subjects were randomly divided into three equal-in-number groups. they participated ...

We show that within the Chicago Public Schools, both the introduction of NCLB in 2002 and the introduction of similar district-level reforms in 1996 generated noteworthy increases in reading and math scores among students in the middle of the achievement distribution but not among the least academically advantaged students. The stringency of proficiency requirements varied among the programs im...

Across the two states, school counseling was shown to be related to a range of important student outcomes including increased Math proficiency levels, increased Reading proficiency levels, lower suspension rates, lower disciplinary rates, increased attendance rates, higher graduation rates, higher Perkins program completion rates, greater percentages of students taking the ACT and higher averag...