The aim of this study was to present a new working memory test following the line of work started by García-Madruga et al. (2007) and to examine its relation to reading comprehension and propositional reasoning measures. In that study we designed a new working memory span test--based on Daneman & Carpenter's (1980) Reading Span Test (RST)--in which the processing task called for an inferential ...

this study seeks to examine how teachers’ educational background (those who have educated in tefl in comparison to those who have educated in literature) may influence their beliefs and attitudes on language learning, teaching and the teaching methods they apply in their classes. on a general basis, depending on teachers’ opinion, learning process might be seen as behavioristic, inductive, inte...

________________ One of the most common findings of recent reading research is that drawing inferences is an essential part of the comprehension process, even among young children (Anderson & Pearson, 1984). Dole et al (1991) argues that inference is at the heart of comprehension process. As they construct their own models of meaning for a given text, readers and listeners alike use inferencing...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate and rank order by importance the contributions of various cognitive predictors to reading comprehension in third, seventh, and tenth graders. An exploratory factor analysis revealed that for third grade, the best fit was a four-factor solution including Fluency, Verbal Reasoning, Nonverbal Reasoning, and Working Memory factors. For seventh and...

In this study, the researchers explored role of metacognition component on reading comprehension ability and in predicting level accuracy metacomprehension. The first stage research used experimental to see effect inferential ability. second using correlational method is study relationship between independent dependent variables. This involved 300 primary school students from 10 schools with a ...