In education, the functions of reading, among others, are to access knowledge, synthesize information, evaluate arguments, and learn new subjects. It is believed that successful readers employ various proper reading strategies comprehend a text. To examine use metacognitive in academic comprehension, this study investigates performance major twenty-five vocational Indonesian lecturers from inst...

The current article was an attempt to investigate the effect of semantic mapping strategy instruction on reading comprehension performance of EFL learners. To this end, thirty homogeneous Iranian intermediate EFL learners attending a language school in Bonab, Iran, were randomly assigned to two groups, one as the experimental and the other as the control. The experimental group received instruc...

This study investigates and compares the efficacy of differentiated instruction and traditional-based instruction on enhancing Iranian students’ reading comprehension. Eight elementary, intermediate, and advanced classrooms from 1 language institute were chosen, and based on their performance on the pretests were further divided into 4 control and 4 treatment groups. Flexible grouping, tiered i...