Reading contributes to vocabulary development and is regarded as an efficient pedagogical approach learning. Through reading, learners are exposed new words in their rightful context of use. This study investigates the effects input enhancements on incidental academic word learning through reading English texts among a Second Language (ESL) undergraduates. The compares different conditions, glo...

In 2020 and 2021, Maynooth University (MU) Library ran an academic writing programme for library staff, loosely based on the international Academic Writing Month (AcWriMo) model. This model originated in U.S. with aim of encouraging supporting among early career academics researchers. Individuals or teams set November as a time to advance their substantially through establishing specific goals ...

INTRODUCTION Difficulties in word-level reading skills are prevalent in Brazilian schools and may deter children from gaining the knowledge obtained through reading and academic achievement. Music education has emerged as a potential method to improve reading skills because due to a common neurobiological substratum. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of music education for the improveme...

the study of the relationship between memory and achievement motivation with gender and academic achievement of students of urmia medical sciences university     feizi pour h [1] *, farjah gh [2] , qaderneghad m [3]     received: 9 nov , 2011 accepted: 21 jan , 2012     abstract   background & aims : memory gives possibility to mental life of human including thoughts, perceptions, opinions, and...

A Comparison in Reading Ability and Achievement between Mono-Lingual and Bilingual Fifth Graders Y. Adib, Ph.D. Z. Sharifi N. Mahmoodi To  compare both the reading ability and academic achievement among Farsi speaking mono-lingual fifth graders and their bilingual Aazari and Kordi counterparts, three samples of 153, 132, and 145 (total 430) such students from three cities o...

In two experiments Dutch–English bilinguals were tested with English words varying in their degree of orthographic, phonological, and semantic overlap with Dutch words. Thus, an English word target could be spelled the same as a Dutch word and/or could be a near-homophone of a Dutch word. Whether such form similarity was accompanied with semantic identity (translation equivalence) was also vari...

purpose: the aim of the current study was to predict the high school students' academic burnout based on social adjustment, academic procrastination and academic hope. materials and method: current research method was descriptive and correlational. the study population included all high school students of the state female high schools of bojnourd. 350 students were selected as a sample emp...