The Stroop effect has been shown to depend on the relative proportion of congruent and incongruent trials. This effect is commonly attributed to experiment-wide word-reading strategies that change as a function of proportion congruent. Recently, Jacoby, Lindsay, and Hessels (2003) reported an item-specific proportion congruent effect that cannot be due to these strategies and instead may reflec...

many students are being faced to some problems in instructive skills such as reading and comprehension especially when they study literary texts, [1]both in school and university. to solve this problem, such skills should [2]be taught with a method that the learner(s) has an active relation to the text and its components. he (she) should be able to make a connection between the text and his (he...

How does the literacy teacher negotiate the tensions between skills and social practice? Negotiation requires engaging with the debate in which literacy is seen as a set of discrete, transferable skills, dependent upon cognitive development, to the notion of literacies which are bound to social practice, and adapting teaching practices which align these two perspectives. Literacy teacher traini...

the purpose of this study was to probe the effect of metacognitive strategy instruction through dialogic interaction on the reading comprehension performance and metacognitive awareness of iranian efl learners. the data were collected through the survey of reading strategies (sors) and a reading test to examine changes in metacognitive awareness and reading performance before and after the inte...

The present study aims to examine the effects of incorporating online systematic guided reading strategies (SGRS) on performance English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. employed mixed-method approach with one-group pre-test and post-test design. participants were recruited from second-year students majoring in language. quantitative data subjected statistical analysis using t-test, while ...

This study focused on using appropriate reading strategies to improve the comprehension of prospective teachers in two teacher education colleges Vellore District Tamil Nadu, India. The paper begins by introducing importance English language contemporary environment, and then highlights significance for academic purposes. Three were employed experimental study. sample size testing methods exper...