Dependence on computers and internet has given birth to digital literacy. However, research into its influences on the reading process is still in its infancy. To fill the gap, this study was designed to investigate the ways in which text presentation mode (paper vs. digital) affects reading comprehension, as well as reading attitudes. To this end, a sample of 30 male and female English major s...

PURPOSE To develop standardized texts in Brazilian Portuguese to assess reading speed and compare performances among four European languages. METHODS 10 texts were designed by a linguistic expert at the level of a sixth grade reading material (reading ages 10-12 years) and were matched for length and syntactic complexity, according to the syntactic prediction locality theory of Gibson. Normal...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of using metacognition reading strategies on the reading comprehension of Arabic texts of ninth grade female students. A random sample of (57) of ninth grade female students at Ma'an secondary school for girls in Ma'an Directorate of Education during the academic year 2009/2010, was distributed randomly into two groups: experimental and co...

Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature in the sense that we would like to use them should result in academic activities that are social in their orientation. Academics are not isolated individuals equipped with scientific tools and working within laboratory like situations. Their close encounter with the real world situations is a fundamental necessity. Reading theories and literary texts i...

Fluent reading is essential for successful comprehension. One dimension of reading fluency is reading rate, or reading speed. Because of the importance of reading fluency, fluency development activities should be incorporated into classroom practice. One activity that meets the fluency development conditions proposed by Nation (2007) is speed reading. An important question is whether reading sp...

University studies rely primarily on written sources, which have to be read, comprehended and then discussed by students teachers in class become a part of an expanding knowledge system. For several years, the author has been teaching introductory course second language acquisition first year BA English Philology Poland. She noticed that throughout had more problems with comprehending basic cou...