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Download full textLiliana Herrera Nieves; Verónica De La Hoz Vargas; Elis Coba Roncallo; Ariana Hernández Gutiérrez – South African Journal of Education, 2024
Reading is regarded as one of the basic learning processes that provides multiple skills and abilities for daily life. The study reported on here arose from evidence of reading comprehension difficulties of middle school students in Colombia, and from reflection on the didactic strategies used for the promotion and teaching of reading. The purpose…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Middle School Students, Learning Processes
Direct linkEndley, Martin J. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2016
This paper reports a study of the reading strategies used by twelve Arabic-speaking undergraduates at a major Gulf university when reading texts in English. The procedure employed was a think-aloud protocol followed by a semi-structured interview. Three research questions were addressed: (a) What are the primary comprehension problems encountered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Reading Strategies, English (Second Language)
Bensoussan, Marsha – 1984
A study investigating the influence of certain features of cohesion and coherence on Israeli college students' difficulty in reading English expository texts examined the reader's ability to understand sequences of propositions and familiarity with markers of cohesion. Three methods were used to investigate the problem: application of a…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), College English, College Freshmen
Williams, Ray – 1982
A British publisher conducted a readability study of its English language content area texts being used in foreign countries to determine how the texts could be made more readable. A cloze procedure assessment of a secondary school Hong Kong social studies series indicated that the English texts were too difficult for 91% of the pupils tested.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, English (Second Language)
