Abstract Adequate reading behaviour is vital for text comprehension across fields. In today’s professional environment, a well-developed skill also expected in English as second language (EL2), which happens already college, although transition to college-level may be difficult even the first language. It therefore useful analyse students’ use of strategies facilitate their academic progress. T...

Following innovations in intelligence and its radical changes from a unitary concept (IQ) to a multi-dimensional conceptualization, i.e. multiple intelligences and the need to design classroom activities based on the L2 learners’ cognitive styles, this study examined the impact of linguistic intelligence and emotional intelligence on the reading comprehension ability of the Iranian EFL learners...

This study investigated the relationship of the attitudes and cultural background of Arab students in Israel to their reading comprehension of stories from Jewish and Arab culture. Participants were 74 eighth-grade Arab students (age 14±15 years) from Israel, learning Hebrew as a second language (L2). An attitude questionnaire, stories from Arab and Jewish culture and multiple-choice questions ...

Relatively little is known about the interaction between a bilingual’s two languages beyond the word level. This paper investigates the issue by comparing word reading times (RTs) in both L1 and L2 to quantitative predictions by statistical language models. Recurrent neural networks are trained on either a Dutch corpus, an English corpus, or the two corpora combined (i.e., the bilingual network...

Based on the assumption that preparing reader before reading can foster comprehension, this research presents an empirical study in which effects of pre-reading tasks comprehension narrative texts English as a second language2 (L2) were investigated. Nine participants from public high school took part investigation and to collect data, two Reading Comprehension Tests fulfilled by right after ea...