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Alfarwan, Salah – Reading Psychology, 2021
This research addressed some current issues in L2 reading strategy research (the nature of any gender effect, and the use of multiple data gathering instruments) as well as an important problem at tertiary level in Saudi Arabia (low English reading proficiency). It examined which reading strategies were most widely reported by 120 Saudi EFL…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Tamin, Ilkay Banu; Büyükahiska, Dilek – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2020
There has been less research available on the integration of metacognitive reading strategies into regular English courses in high schools. Therefore, this action research study was a modest attempt to search the impacts of a reading strategy instruction on students' metacognitive awareness. To this end, a 10-week metacognitive reading strategy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Reading Strategies, High School Students
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Al-Mekhlafi, Abdo Mohammed – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
Reading, a literacy skill, is of great importance to all educational systems. Even in tertiary education, many EFL learners have trouble in reading academic texts in English, as they are often found to be using ineffective reading strategies. A review of relevant literature provides insights into a range of issues relating to the teaching of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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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
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Griva, Eleni; Alevriadou, Anastasia; Semoglou, Klio – International Education Studies, 2012
The purpose of the present study was to identify the correlation between gender and reading preferences and reading strategies employed by 5th and 6th Grade students of primary school in Greece. The main objectives of the present study were (1) to identify possible differences between male and female students in employing cognitive and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Interests, Preferences, Reading Strategies