Promoting Students’ Reading Proficiency through Reciprocal Technique

Route to Reading. Promoting Reading through a School Library: Effects for non-Western Migrant Students

Mapping Reading Anxiety on Reading Strategy Uses among Iranian Students with Diverse Proficiency Levels

The present study was an attempt to determine a relationship between foreign language reading anxiety and reading strategy use among a group of EFL Iranian readers (no = 100) with low vs. high proficiency levels. To this end, FLRAS (Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale) developed by Saito, Horwitz, and Garza, (1999) was used in order to measure the participants’ level of anxiety in reading an...

Promoting English language development and the reading habit among students in rural schools through the Guided Extensive Reading program

This paper describes an extensive reading program conducted in three rural secondary or middle schools in Malaysia, aimed at motivating the students to read extensively in English and helping them overcome their problems in understanding English texts as a means towards increasing their proficiency in the language. The paper begins by discussing the rationale for extensive reading for students ...

Can medical students achieve skills proficiency through simulation training?

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine whether third-year medical students can become proficient in open technical skills through simulation laboratory training. METHODS A total of 204 students participated in a structured curriculum including bladder catheterization, breast examination, and knot-tying. Proficiency was documented using global rating scales and validated, object...

Promoting productive argumentation through students' questions

Questions are important in facilitating the thinking process that leads to learning. There are many research studies examining the use of students’ questions as scaffolds to facilitate argument construction but more needs to be done to understand how these questions are used in generating productive arguments. As such, in this research, we investigate (1) the types of students’ questions genera...