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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
Anvari, Sahar; Farvardin, Mohammad Taghi – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2016
There are many questions about how EFL learners infer word meanings from context and what distinguishes successful from less successful inferencers. This study explored the lexical inferencing strategies used by EFL learners and the characteristics which distinguish successful from less successful inferencers. To this end, 15 EFL students in an…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jafarigohar, Manoochehr; Mortazavi, Mahboobeh – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
This study investigated the impact of structuring and problematizing scaffolding mechanisms on 240 Iranian English as a foreign language learners' individual and socially shared metacognition in writing skills. The study also sought to find out whether the learners' proficiency level moderated the effect of the scaffolding mechanisms on…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ahmadian, Moussa; Pasand, Parastou Gholami – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2017
This study explores Iranian EFL learners' online reading metacognitive strategy use and its relation to their self-efficacy in reading comprehension. It further examines the effect of gender in this respect. To these ends, the Online Survey of Reading Strategies (OSORS) and reading selfefficacy questionnaire were adopted and administered to 63…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Strategies
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
Zare-ee, Abbas; Fatemeh Mahdavi – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
In the study reported here, we explored writing processes employed by 70 undergraduate learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) through questionnaires and think-aloud protocols. Then we looked for possible differences in the writing processes employed by high- and low-aptitude learners. We observed that learners with higher aptitude scores…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jannejad, Mohsen; Shokouhi, Hossein; Haghighi, Somayeh Biparva – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study seeks to determine the possible interactions between listening proficiency and the state of strategic self-awareness; second, and more importantly, to investigate the effects of learned strategies on listening comprehension and recall; and finally to describe the most common real-time listening comprehension problems faced by EFL…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Metacognition
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