The ultimate purpose of Test for English Majors 4 (TEM-4) and International English Language Test System Academic (IELTS A) are to test students' English language application abilities. This paper made a comparative study between reading comprehension part in two tests. It points out that IELTS A, with its up-to-date and diversified types of writing, can reflect students’ real English level and...

This study aims to find out the kinds of pre-reading strategy used by teacher and how apply in teaching reading comprehension. The formulated problems this were: (1) What strategies are teacher? (2) How is a applied for comprehension? research was conducted through qualitative research. type specifically case study. participants were 33 students one English at ninth-grade SMPN 1 Mancak, Serang....

Reading is an essential factor for success at school that requires certain skills and strategies of great complexity rarely taught in schools. Verbalization of comprehension strategies can be considered an effective measure in learning to read. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of a program of teaching reading strategies implemented through interactive dialogic reading groups ...

The main goal of this study was to analyze whether primary teachers use evidence-based reading instruction for primary-grade readers. The study sample consisted of six teachers whose teaching was recorded. The observation instrument used was developed ad hoc for this study. The recording instrument used was Match Vision Studio. The data analysis was performed using SAS, GT version 2.0 E, and TH...

This article sets out to examine the effect of utilizing different culturally-based materials on EFL university students' foreign language reading anxiety, reading comprehension self-efficacy, and reading proficiency within project-based classes. The research was carried out with two classes of intermediate freshmen majoring in English Language Teaching. The comparison group had to present thei...

Recent research has evaluated the motivational functions of educational games and its potential role for the teaching of reading skills. Educational games must maintain their educational function retaining clear definitions of the teaching objectives and instructional methods. Reading skills can be broken down into more basic behavioral units. Each relation between spoken words and written word...

To communicate is the primary goal of most foreign language learning (EFL). As an important component of the four macro skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), reading should also serve this purpose. However, traditional methodology still dominates extensive reading teaching in most of the universities. To promote a communicative extensive reading class, we may start by designing var...

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...