Ambai a Tamil Nadu woman writer who has highlighted the feminist voice for emancipation of women in society and their strong personality development through her writings on history modern literature, created short stories an understanding existence, challenges place social platform with keen interest life. She written about problem dowry sphere, unrestrained male-female friendships, women's sex...

The present study examines the role of gender in reading comprehension of short stories taught through awareness-raising among Iranian EFL learners. In so doing, twelve male and eighteen female learners with lower intermediate English proficiency were selected as the research sample. Next, they were randomly divided into two fifteen-member groups (i.e., a control group and an experimental group...