Reading comprehension is a complex, multifaceted process in which number of components are appropriately and often simultaneously activated. The importance different background subprocesses, its complex nature, as well the interconnection various has been demonstrated by ‘models reading comprehension’. Based on these models, assessment methods materials for developed. However, models developed ...

PURPOSE To characterize the performance of students with reading difficulties in decoding and reading comprehension tasks as well as to investigate the possible correlations between them. METHODS Sixty students (29 girls) from 3rd to 5th grades of public Elementary Schools were evaluated. Thirty students (Research Group - RG), ten from each grade, were nominated by their teachers as presentin...

The reading comprehension is a basic requirement when the students enter in universities or colleges decide to work industry. Therefore, it necessary for teachers give as many opportunities possible by providing them with wide range of effective and useful materials well develop habit enhance their techniques. Students nowadays are observed having great dilemma comes comprehending text. Reading...

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...

Sense of humor as a key factor for increasing the effect of instruction has been overlooked by research in the field of education. This study was an attempt to investigate the effects of the use of humor on EFL learners’ reading comprehension. For this purpose, a group of Iranian EFL learners were taught reading comprehension through the use of humorous passages while another group of learners ...

Reading is recognized as being the most important skill needed by ESP learners in their field of study, and vocabulary knowledge is the most widely discussed component of effective ESP reading per se. However, research on how much the different types of words exert substantial influences over ESP reading comprehension remains scanty. To address this lacuna, the present study aimed to examine th...

Comprehension is the ultimate goal of reading. Everyone agrees that reading comprehension is not a simple matter of recognizing individual words, or even of understanding each individual word as our eyes pass over it. All models of comprehension recognize the need for readers to build up a mental representation of text, a process that requires integration across a range of sources of informatio...

In my learning disabilities class each year, a student does a presentation on remediating reading comprehension problems. To prepare for the presentation, students read the most recent textbooks and articles that describe strategies to improve reading comprehension. At some point during the presentation, the student will say something like, "The ability to identify the main idea is crucial for ...