Aging may be associated with an increase in generalized text processing, particularly in adults older than 75 years. The current study examined text comprehension in young, young-old, and old-old adults. Experiment 1 included a comprehension measure (product) and Experiment 2 examined inferences generated during reading (process). Comprehension scores were lowest in old-old adults. Generalized ...

The research reported here examined the relative effectiveness of semantic mapping, as an interactive pre-reading strategy, on reading comprehension of Iranian undergraduate students (non-EFL majors). It also examined whether there was an interaction between gender and the effect of teaching semantic mapping strategy on reading comprehension. The participants in this study consisted of 120 male...

self-regulation is the ability to regulate one’s cognition, behavior, actions, and motivation strategically and autonomously in order to achieve self-set goals including the learning of academic skills and knowledge. accordingly, self-regulated learning involves self-generated and systematic thoughts and behaviors with the aim of attaining learning goals. with that in mind, this study aimed to ...

Two experiments were conducted to find effective reading strategies. Generating keywords, summarizing, answering questions, and rereading strategies were tested in Experiment 1. Answering questions yielded the best performance both in comprehension and the accuracy of judgment of learning(JOL). In Experiment 2, four reading strategies were tested to find the key aspects of answering question st...

This study reports on the development of a reading comprehension course based on Critical Pedagogy principles, and the result of its application on EFL learners' reading comprehension competence, their motivation to read English materials, their democratic attitudes towards their English classrooms, and also their attitudes towards the critical course. The present study is, in fact, a step forw...

This study aims to explore the difference between field independent (FI) and dependent (FD) learners in area of EFL critical reading skills. To this end, 60 undergraduate students who had taken passed Critical Reading course involved as subjects. The Group Embedded Figure Test (GEFT) was administered classify students’ cognitive styles into FI FD groups. Furthermore, measure skills, comprehensi...

We present event-related brain potential evidence from language comprehension that the N400-modulation during noun-phrase integration is a function of the type of referential dependency that is established (identity versus inference) and the saliency (in the following understood as the sum of factors that influence the degree of accessibility of an entity in the mental model) of the information...

With the introduction of the National Literacy Strategy, England’s primary school teachers were asked to replace ‘‘listening to children read’’–a practice deeply embedded in UK pedagogy–with guided reading, a practice focused on interpretive and critical comprehension rather than accuracy and fluency. This smallscale research project addresses the perceptions of the author’s Primary B.Ed. stude...