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The Effect of Instructing Critical Thinking through Debate on Male and Female EFL Learners' Reading Comprehension
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Tous, Maryam Danaye; Tahriri, Abdorreza; Haghighi, Sara – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of instruction through debate on male and female EFL learners' reading comprehension. Also, their perception of critical thinking (CT) instruction was investigated. A quantitative research method with experimental pre-and post-tests design was conducted to collect the data. Eighty-eight…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Debate
An Investigation of the Possible Effects of Favored Contexts in Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition
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Rezaei, Omid; Dezhara, Salman – English Language Teaching, 2011
It is widely agreed that much second language vocabulary learning occurs while the learner is attentively engaged in the process of reading and interpreting the texts encountered. It is also argued that to understand vocabulary learning linguists cannot limit the investigation of the process of vocabulary learning to word meaning (Gass, 1999).…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Accuracy