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Anyiendah, Mary Susan; Odundo, Paul Amolloh; Kibuyi, Agnes – English Language Teaching, 2020
Prediction skill may be used in reading comprehension passages as encapsulated in interactive approach instruction. Prediction skills assist learners to decode the meaning of comprehension passages by constructing guesses about the contents of texts to be read in comprehension passages. Learners in Vihiga County register low achievement in English…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Prediction, Decoding (Reading), Reading Comprehension
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Mustofa, Ali; Hill, Jonnie Lynn – English Language Teaching, 2018
This paper shares some insights into the notion of having EFL students collectively respond to literature. Understanding and appreciating a piece of literature is determined by how one can convey the concepts and words to new situations. During this process, several types of interaction happen: interaction between experience and the text,…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Channa, Mansoor Ahmed; Nordin, Zaimuariffudin Shukri; Siming, Insaf Ali; Chandio, Ali Asgher; Koondher, Mansoor Ali – English Language Teaching, 2015
This paper has reviewed the previous studies on metacognitive strategies based on planning, monitoring, and evaluating in order to develop reading comprehension. The main purpose of this review in metacognition, and reading domain is to help readers to enhance their capabilities and power reading through these strategies. The researchers reviewed…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Literature Reviews
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Bahaziq, Afnan – English Language Teaching, 2016
Discourse is essential in communicating thoughts and ideas. People around the world communicate their ideas through stretches of language. In order to understand any discourse, it must achieve cohesion. The purpose of this paper is to define and describe the cohesive devices based on the work of Halliday and Hasan (1976). It also aims to emphasize…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Academic Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Essays
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Liu, Feng – English Language Teaching, 2010
This paper gives a short analysis of the nature of reading. Though it is generally believed that reading involves perceiving the written form of language, the term reading has not been clearly defined up to date. It is possible to see reading as a process, or to examine the product of that process. Three reading models, namely Bottom-up Model,…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Definitions, Models, Reading Research
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Shokouhi, Hossein; Maniati, Mahmood – English Language Teaching, 2009
This study was intended to determine whether or not the genre of a reading text affects the incidental vocabulary acquisition of L2 learners while reading. To this aim, 40 Iranian EFL students whose vocabulary knowledge was within a limited range (already determined by Nation's Vocabulary Levels Test) were divided into two groups of 20 each for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development