this study was designed to investigate the effects of gender and schema-based pre-reading activities on the iranian efl learners’ reading comprehension. the sample consisted of 60 male and female students studying at second-grade high school in abhar city. two reading passages (“charles dickens and the little children”, and “hic, hic, hic”) were randomly selected from second-grade english textb...

Abstract Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's observation that practice is not in time but makes and Michael Flaherty's concept of work, this article explores temporal aspects the use literature contemporary Denmark describes how reading allows readers to manipulate their experience time. The main part focuses on cultural norms readers’ expectations relation time, while last, shorter discusses structu...

Reading proficiency is a fundamental component of language competency. However, finding topical texts at an appropriate reading level for foreign and second language learners is a challenge for teachers. This task can be addressed with natural language processing technology to assess reading level. Existing measures of reading level are not well suited to this task, but previous work and our ow...