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Download full textSabzehparvar, Alireza – Online Submission, 2021
This research investigated the relationship between reading maturity, reading strategy use, and gender with Iranian EFL undergraduates' reading comprehension. The results revealed that the most preferred strategies were cognitive in nature. Moreover, the Iranian EFL undergraduates were intellectually enriched by most of what they read and enjoy…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Taylor, Zachary W. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
A recent Educational Testing Services report (2016) found that international graduate students with a TOEFL score of 80--the minimum average TOEFL score for graduate admission in the United States--usually possess reading subscores of 20, equating to a 12th-grade reading comprehension level. However, one public flagship university's international…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Reading Comprehension, College Admission
Direct linkJiang, Xiangying; Sawaki, Yasuyo; Sabatini, John – Reading Psychology, 2012
This study examined the relationship among word reading efficiency, text reading fluency, and reading comprehension for adult English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Data from 185 adult Chinese EFL learners preparing to take the Test-of-English-as-a-Foreign-Language[TM] (TOEFL[R]) were analyzed in this study. The participants completed a…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Chinese, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Perkins, Kyle; Parish, Charles – 1988
This document reviews studies that investigated certain inadequacies of English as a Second Language (ESL) reading comprehension tests. The first study examined whether three ESL reading comprehension tests required information principally from the text or from background knowledge. Results indicated that background knowledge differentially…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Multiple Choice Tests, Prior Learning
Peer reviewedPerkins, Kyle – Journal of Research in Reading, 1988
Reports on an attempt to measure English as a Second Language (ESL) students' ability to apply reasoning in reading, using an experimental test based on Piaget's concrete operations. Suggests that the Test of English as a Second Language (TOEFL) reading comprehension subtest does not measure the ability to apply reasoning in reading; therefore,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods
