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Ehsanzadeh, S. J. – Language Education & Assessment, 2020
This study measures the threshold level of depth of word knowledge in L2 incidental learning and reading comprehension. I administered the Word Associates Test (WAT; Read, 2004) to measure depth of word knowledge. Based on participants' scores on the WAT, they were divided into three proficiency groups: high proficiency (HP), intermediate…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development, Incidental Learning, Second Language Learning
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Karimi, Mohammad Nabi – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
There has been a substantial body of research, in L2, documenting the central importance of strategic knowledge in reading comprehension and exploring the variables likely to influence strategy use by readers. All this research has, however, been conducted within the single-text tradition of reading research. With a movement toward the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Prior Learning, Language Proficiency
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Karimi, Mohammad Nabi; Zangani, Ebrahim; Fallah, Nahid – TESOL International Journal, 2019
In the light of evidence that attention can facilitate and enhance learning, this study attempts to investigate the allocation of attention to meaning and form simultaneously in reading comprehension in the foreign language among monolingual and bilingual learners of English. To this end, three groups of learners namely, bilingual (knowing…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Attention
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Samaie, Mahmoud; Mansouri Nejad, Ali; Qaracholloo, Mahmoud – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
Social networking applications such as WhatsApp have been extensively used for language research; however, they have rarely been applied for language assessment purposes. To explore the efficiency of WhatsApp for assessment purposes, 30 Iranian English learners doing self- and peer-assessments on WhatsApp are studied. The changes and the reasons…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Computer Software, Social Networks
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Bakhshalinezhad, Ladan; Nikou, Farahnaz Reymani; Bonyadi, Alireza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This study explored the reading strategies used by advanced and intermediate Persian EFL learners in both English and Persian reading comprehension texts. Based on the aims of the study reading comprehension texts were administered to the learners and their reading strategies in both English and Persian reading comprehension texts were examined…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Protocol Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Indo European Languages
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Karimi, Mohammad Nabi; Shabani, Mohammad Bagher – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
Recently, reading researchers have come to assume that the ability to synthesize units of information across multiple texts on a topic by comparing, contrasting, synthesizing, integrating, and building a mental representation of them--referred to as multiple-documents literacy--is a far more required literacy in the present knowledge societies…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Ketabi, Saeed; Ghavamnia, Maedeh; Rezazadeh, Mohsen – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2012
This study investigated the cognitive strategies used by Persian EFL (English as a foreign language) graduate students while reading a hypermedia text. Prior to the start of the study, the Nelson-Denny Reading Test was used in order to measure the reading ability of the students. Data was collected through think-aloud protocols, and the strategies…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Reading Tests, Indo European Languages, Native Speakers
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Khonamri, Fatemeh; Mahmoudi Kojidi, Elahe – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2011
We report an investigation on the relationship between metacognitive awareness of reading strategies and comprehension monitoring of language learners in English as a foreign language context. Participants were thirty first year university students majoring in electronics. They completed a questionnaire aimed at discerning the strategies that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Reading Ability
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Riazi, Abdolmehdi; Babaei, Naghmeh – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2008
This paper reports a study in which Iranian EFL female students' think aloud protocols were analyzed to find out what knowledge sources informed them as they tried to make lexical inference when reading an English text. The study also intended to find out if students' level of their L2 proficiency would affect the pattern of their use of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction