Reading skill is a fundamental requirement to lifelong learner success, yet the way teachers assess their student’s reading comprehension ability is challenging. One of the new trends in reading skill instruction is portfolio assessment. This study investigated the effects of portfolio assessment on EFL learner’s reading comprehension ability. The participants, 50 advanced (female) EFL learners...

The significance and effectiveness of pre-reading activities in the contexts of both ESL and EFL has been acknowledged by many researchers. If students lack the required background knowledge, a teacher must activate students’ background knowledge or offer background information prior to reading a text. The present study aimed at investigating the role of pre-reading questions plus extensive rea...

the essential role of reading can be overlooked neither in the native nor in the second or foreign language. reading skill is an important asset in the process of literacy as well as a means of extending one's knowledge, however, teaching reading involves unique problems and challenges at all conceivable levels of instruction. focusing on teaching english to children, practitioners complai...

the present study attempted to introduce shared reading as one of the most effective techniques in cultivating the learners’ reading and writing abilities. to this end, 50 homogenous students were assigned to the control and experimental groups following the administration of a standardized english proficiency test. thenceforth, based on writing and reading pretest scores of the learners on a g...

Reading comprehension ability consists of multiple cognitive processes, and cloze tests have long been claimed to measure this ability as a whole. However, since the introduction of cloze test, different varieties of it have been proposed by the testers. Thus, the present study was an attempt to examine the relatedness of Cloze-Elide test, Multiple-choice (MC) cloze test, and C-test as three di...

Neural entrainment to the low-frequency modulations of speech might contribute significantly reading acquisition. Still, no previous study has actually attempted establish a longitudinal link between them. The present tested Basque-speaking children twice: once before was formally instructed (t1; 5–6 years old) and after they had received full school year instruction (t2; 6–7 old). At t1, speec...

The 2D seismic reflection data were used to study the structure of Shurau and Sheikh Alas formations (Oligocene) in Ismail area, northern Iraq. horizons reflectors identified based on well logs through a synthetic seismogram construction. Two-Way Time, velocity depth maps two coinciding obtained. A Great coincidence was noticed between identical formations. Main closure (syncline) trending NE-S...