bourdieu had the help of two concepts of “habitus” and “field” to explain his theory and to show social distinctions, he argues that the social world is made up of different fields. each field has its own certain habitus and they can change depending on the field`s change. he believes that modern world is based on distinction. this distinction is clear in structural concepts such as space, clas...

This study explores the effect of online annotations via Interactive White Boards (IWBs) on reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners. To this aim, 60 students from a language institute were selected as homogeneous based on their performance on Oxford Placement Test (2014).Then, they were randomly assigned to 3 experimental groups of 20, and subsequently exposed to the research treatment af...

This study investigates some the reading passages in terms of hortatory messages. To this end amethodology based on Critical Discourse Analysis was adopted. The reading texts from ELTtextbooks were examined through a model which drew on Fairclough's approach to CDA,specifically (Fairclough, 2003) in which three characteristic features of hortatory texts areintroduced. The analysis reveals that ...

The absolute hegemony of international code of (academic) communication has resulted in the development and spread of the discoursal voice of the culture form which historical English has emerged, and, as a consequence, any violation from the generic conventions and thinking patterns born out of such a discourse has resulted in the deprivation of non-native thinkers form active participation in...

This study investigates some the reading passages in terms of hortatory messages. To this end a methodology based on Critical Discourse Analysis was adopted. The reading texts from ELT textbooks were examined through a model which drew on Fairclough's approach to CDA, specifically (Fairclough, 2003) in which three characteristic features of hortatory texts are introduced. The analysis reveals t...

This study investigated the effect of Narrow Reading (NR) on learning mid-frequency words. Vocabulary Size Test (VST) designed by Nation and Beglar (2007) was administered as the first pre-test to 196 students, from among whom 91 students whose vocabulary size ranged between 2100- 3500-word families, , became the target of this study and were randomly c...

Reading is a complex visuomotor behavior characterized by an alternation of fixations and saccadic eye movements. Despite the widespread use of drifting texts in various settings, very little is known about eye movements under these conditions. Here we investigated oculomotor behavior during reading of texts which were drifting horizontally or vertically at different speeds. Consistent with pre...

Researchers have shown that skilled readers use variety of strategies to comprehend written texts (Stanovich, 2000; Sweet & Snow, 2003). Hence many readers are not aware of reading strategies; there is a need of explicit teaching instruction to develop those strategies. In fact, in most English reading classes there is absence of teaching comprehension strategies to readers, the strategy usuall...