the narratives permitting common reading of quran, despite differences in the readings of imams and those of common ones, allow people to read as common reading. some persons regard seven readings as the proof of their permissibility. others, based on periods, have considered them as permissible only in the imams era. and some jurists have regarded only hafs’ narrative as the proof of these tra...

This study uses a moving windows self-paced reading task to assess text comprehension of beginning and intermediate-level simplified texts and authentic texts by L2 learners engaged in a text-retelling task. Linear mixed effects (LME) models revealed statistically significant main effects for reading proficiency and text level on the number of text-based propositions recalled: More proficient r...

We compared high school students’ performance in a traditional comprehension assessment requiring them to identify key information and draw inferences from single texts, scenario-based (SBA) integrate, evaluate apply across multiple sources. Both assessments focused on non-academic topic. Performance the two were moderately correlated (r = 0.57), but SBA was more difficult (Study 1; n 342). The...

The literature shows curriculum design for critical literacy development is commonly organised on a theme-based principle. This article, in contrast, emerges from experience in an academic preparation program in which the organizing principle for critical reading module design is not theme but text-type, specifically news reports of the ‘hard news’ genre in Australian English-language newspaper...

Automated text complexity assessment tools are of enormous practical value in solving the time-consuming task analyzing English informational texts for their at pre-reading stage. The present study depicts application automated analysis system TextEvaluator as an effective tool that helps analyze on eight dimensions follows: syntactic complexity; academic vocabulary; word unfamiliarity; concret...

Reading is a fundamental skill in language learning for learners to produce: write and speak the target language. In order perform successfully academic professional settings, are required learn new knowledge by reading comprehending written texts extensively effectively. Nevertheless, poor literacy rate, performance struggling readers evidently some problems among second better comprehend lear...

This mixed-methods study aimed at investigating the effects of a gadget-based Internet multimedia extensive reading program on promoting language proficiency. In so doing, a pretest-posttest design was applied in the quantitative phase to comparatively analyze outcomes of three classes of college-level EFL learners (two experimental groups and one control, each including 30 university students)...

This study investigated the effect of cultural orientation on reading comprehension andachievement motivation of the EFL learners. To conduct this study, the researcher recruited 60Iranian EFL learners at language institutes. All learners were selected from the intermediate level.They were assigned to two groups; experimental and control groups. The researcher used a numberof cultural concepts ...

This workshop will present the importance of creative work in the clinical practice of the clinician or bioethicist. First I will present some of the narratological theories of close reading and aesthetic theories of creative writing. We will join in close reading of one or two clinical texts and literary texts, creative writing in the context of those texts, and then reading to one another wha...

This study was undertaken to investigate the relationship between quality of parental homework involvement and academic functioning in the reading domain (reading score, homework effort, and academic procrastination) among students. The statistical population of the study was comprised of all sixth graders in Ardakan, Yazd Province, in school year 2014-15. The sample consisted of 366 students w...