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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)
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Lim, Chang Kuan; Eng, Lin Siew; Mohamed, Abdul Rashid; Ismail, Shaik Abdul Malik Mohamed – English Language Teaching, 2018
The purpose of the study is to have a relook at the ESL reading comprehension assessment system for Malaysian Year Five students. Traditionally, the ESL teachers have been assessing and reporting on their primary year's students by merely giving a composite grade with some vague remarks. This process has been used and is still being employed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Nejad, Ferdows Mohsen; Khosravian, Fereshteh – English Language Teaching, 2014
The present study examined the reliability of an achievement test to measure the efficacy of task-based writing activities to improve Iranian EFL learners' reading comprehension at the intermediate level in a private language institute in Ilam, Iran, namely Alefba language institute. To achieve the goal, the techniques for evaluating reliability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Test Reliability, Writing Assignments
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Al Hajri, Fatma – English Language Teaching, 2014
Proficiency in English language and how it is measured have become central issues in higher education research as the English language is increasingly used as a medium of instruction and a criterion for admission to education. This study evaluated the English language assessment in the foundation Programme at the Colleges of Applied sciences in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Programs, Thematic Approach, Language Proficiency
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Salem, Ashraf Atta M. S. – English Language Teaching, 2013
The present study aimed at investigating the effects of using a program based on the writing workshop approach on developing basic writing skills of prospective teachers of English in Hurgada faculty of Education. For that purpose, the researcher constructed and validated a teaching program based on the writing workshop approach, checklist of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ghafournia, Narjes; Afghari, Akbar – English Language Teaching, 2013
The study scrutinized the probable interaction between using cognitive test-taking strategies, reading proficiency, and reading comprehension test performance of Iranian postgraduate students, who studied English as a foreign language. The study also probed the extent to which the participants' test performance was related to the use of certain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, English (Second Language)