Assessing undergraduate students' reading process: insights from questionnaire and reading task data

Assessing Students’ Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies

This article describes the development and validation of a new self-report instrument, the Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory, which is designed to assess adolescent and adult readers’ metacognitive awareness and perceived use of reading strategies while reading academic or schoolrelated materials. There were 3 strategy subscales or factors: Global Reading Strategies, Probl...

Assessing Reading

Explaining Pattern-Based Reading in TeachingArchitectural History and Evaluating its Effectivenesson Architecture Students’ Ideation and Insights

In the following article, the necessity of effectiveness and application of historicalknowledge in architectural design is discussed. In other words, how historical data canbe an approach to enhance students’ design insights. A review of the literature suggeststhat one of the challenges of teaching architecture is helping students in the process ofcreating new ideas. Accordingly, one of the pro...

Books, Reading, and Undergraduate Education

A~STRACT FORECASTS OF THE DEMISE OF THE printed book or codex and the associated changes in the academic library foster valid questions about the continuing place of reading and print media in American colleges. This article cites the increasing interest paid to information technologies by higher education, particularly college libraries, and the corresponding competition from radio, television...

the effect of teaching reading as whole text task and paragraph task on efl learners speaking

abstract the present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of a rather newly developed method in language teaching that is the use of paragraph reading task and whole reading task and their effects on improving efl learner’s speaking ability. to fulfill the purpose of the study, first 90 participants studying their course at sa eedi high school in tehran were chosen by means of ...