A commonly-held belief is that many university students are ‘assessment-driven’; is, engage more with activities assessed compared those not. ‘Incentivised engagement’ includes the practice of providing incentives (such as marks or otherwise) for to in particular activities. Perusall a social annotation platform designed increase student engagement pre-class reading. In this study, second-year ...

The current study was intended to investigate the impact of Dynamic Assessment (DA) on promoting reading comprehension ability of Iranian male and female EFL learners, focusing on Guthke's Lerntest approach. In this study, the researcher used DA which unifies instruction with assessment to provide learners with mediation to promote their hidden potential during assessment. In this action resear...

Strategies-based instruction (SBI), as a learner-centered and participatory approach, allows learners to be the center of attention and explicitly taught how, when, and why strategies can be used. The study reported here has investigated the effect of strategic reading instruction on enhancing reading comprehension and emotionalsocial abilities of a cohort of undergraduates at a college located...

Reading to young children has a number of benefits, including supporting the acquisition of vocabulary and literacy skills. Digital reading games, including ones with new modes of interface such as the Kinect for Xbox, may provide similar benefits in part by allowing dynamic in-game activities. However, these activities may also be distracting and detract from learning. Children (ages 5–7 years...

Reading has been identified as an indicator of successful academic achievement. The present qualitative study explored reading literacy practices Omani adolescent students. Three high school students participated in semi-structured interviews. findings revealed four main factors that determined their practices: motivation to read, home practices, students' rituals, and digital practices. These ...

in this study two modes ofreading (car and traditional print mode) were compared in regards to their effectiveness for l2 reading comprehension. a group of 120 english major students were divided into three classes: car, traditional, and control. based on the english proficiency scores each class was divided into two groups (high and low levels of proficiency). three classes were taught by the ...