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EFL Learners as Visualizers in Reading and Recalling Literary Texts
Research in the field of reading skill indicates that lexical items that have entered our minds through reading a text commonly leave us with pictures, sounds, echoes, and feelings in the mind (cf. Stevick, 1986). While ...
The Role of Visualization in EFL Learners Reading Comprehension and Recall of Short Stories
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Generally speaking, lexical items that enter our minds through reading a text commonly leave us with pictures, sounds, echoes, and feelings in the mind. While the ability to produce images in the mind in ...
Genre-based Analysis of English Patient Information Leaflets (PILs) and Examining the Reading Strategies Used by Skilled and Novice Readers in Reading PILs
This study sought to identify the rhetorical structures of Patient Information Leaflets (PILs), and also explored the reading strategies utilized by skilled and novice readers in reading this kind of text. This study was conducted in two phases...
an introspective study of reading anxiety
the study examines te possible relationship between reaidng anxiety adn reading strategies and also between reading anxiety and language learners' use of reading strategies. Using FLRAS questionnaire and thinking-aloud techique, we examined upper...
The Impact of Concept Mapping on EFL Learners' Critical Thinking Ability
The present study investigated the influence of concept mapping as a post-reading strategy on EFL learners' critical thinking ability. The study utilized a pretest – posttest control and experimental group design. To do so, thirty six EFL learners...
Investigating the relationships among metacognitive strategy training, willingness to read English medical texts, and reading comprehension ability using structural equation modeling
to Communicate in English questionnaire (WTC). Students of the experimental group were provided with some reading strategies, including reading for main ideas and reading for organization. At the end of the semester, all participants again completed the two...
The relationship between metacognitive strategy training and willingness to read in English among medical students
; MacIntyre, Baker, Clément, & Conrod, 2001). In theStudents of the experimental group, the teacher were provided the students with the metacognitive knowledge and some reading strategies, including reading for main ideas and reading for organization...
Role of Cognitive Style of Field-dependence/ independence in Using Metacognitive and Cognitive Reading Strategies by a Group of Skilled and Novice Iranian Students of English Literature
Role of Cognitive Style of Field-dependence/ independence in Using Metacognitive and Cognitive Reading Strategies by a Group of Skilled and Novice Iranian Students of English Literature...