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Download full textImsa-ard, Pariwat – English Language Teaching, 2022
The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of utilizing graphic organizers to enhance Thai EFL students' reading comprehension abilities and their opinions regarding using graphic organizers for reading comprehension. To gather information from sixty-four upper secondary school students at a public school in Bangkok, this research…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Reading Comprehension, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
Badawi, Mohamed Farrag Ahmed – English Language Teaching, 2019
The study attempted to investigate the effect of explicit morphology instruction (EMI) on developing secondary school students' EFL morphological awareness and reading comprehension. The explicit morphology instruction targeted two morphological skills namely, inflectional and derivational skills. The study used a pre-posttest experimental and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Morphology (Languages), Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Al-Qahtani, Abdulaziz Ali – English Language Teaching, 2020
The current study's objective examines the effectiveness of using a Think-Aloud strategy in improving Saudi EFL learners' reading comprehension and attitudes towards learning. A quantitative study with a quasi-experimental design was implemented through applying two different instruments: Reading Comprehension Skills Test and Attitude Scale…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Seedanont, Charinwit; Pookcharoen, Suphawat – English Language Teaching, 2019
EFL readers tend to experience a number of challenges while learning, due to a number of factors that affect how these readers achieve their learning goals. Metacognitive strategies, referring to one's deliberate, goal-directed control over cognitive enterprises, are considered crucial for assisting EFL learners to be able to accomplish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Second Language Learning
Ahmed, Mahgoub Dafalla – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study examines the Sudanese EFL students' comprehension performance and measures the differences in their performance according to gender. After one semester of participation in extensive reading, 300 secondary school students from 15 schools in the state of Khartoum are randomly selected for the study. A comprehension test followed by a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Secondary School Students
Mohaidat, Mohammad Mahmoud Talal – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study aimed to investigate the impact of the electronic mind map (IMindMap) on the development of reading comprehension among the ninth grade students in Jordan. The sample of the study consisted of two ninth grade sections from two public schools in Irbid First Directorate during the academic 2016-2017. Each section consisted of (30)…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Teaching Methods
Al-Qahtani, Abdulaziz Ali – English Language Teaching, 2015
Discourse markers (DMs) instruction is currently receiving an increasing amount of attention in the literature on second language learning. As noted by Al-Yaari, Al Hammadi, Alyami, and Almaflehi (2013), and Algouzi (2014), the use of DMs is insufficient to support the development of the language skills, especially reading, of Saudi English as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension
Mistar, Junaidi; Zuhairi, Alfan; Yanti, Nofita – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study investigated the effect of reading strategies training on the students' literal and inferential reading comprehension. The training involved three concrete strategies: predicting, text mapping, and summarizing. To achieve the purpose of this study, a quasi experimental design was selected with the experimental group being given reading…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Abdelrahman, Mahmoud Sulaiman Hamad Bani; Bsharah, Muwafaq Saleem – English Language Teaching, 2014
This study aimed to find the effect of speed reading strategies on developing reading comprehension among second secondary literary stream students in English language. The sample of the study consists of (42) students assigned into two groups who were chosen randomly from schools, a controlled group (21) students, and an experimental (21)…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
Hajhashemi, Karim – English Language Teaching, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine whether performance in MI could predict the performance in reading competency. The other objectives were to identify the components of MI which are correlated with the reading test scores, and to determine the relationship between the multiple intelligences and reading proficiency. A descriptive and ex post…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Predictor Variables, Language Proficiency, Multiple Intelligences
