this study was an attempt to investigate the comparative impact of two types of teaching approaches, namely content-based (cbi) and task-based (tblt) instruction on the reading comprehension of iranian efl learners. for this purpose, sixty intermediate students from a pool of eighty five students studying at a private language school were chosen using a piloted pet. the students were then rando...

The aim of this study was to investigates the impact critical reading strategies on students’ competence. participants research were semester three students English education. sample twenty students. This used test and observation determine their level competence during learning. showed that Strategy enhanced means score in cycle two (80.95). result much better than one (70.94). Based above it ...

Teachers in any discipline where reading matters should practice a robust scaffolding pedagogy to teach critical reading, contrast the more common but less direct approaches that often leave students learn or not these skills themselves. In this essay, I describe how adapt established methods for teaching writing (including templates) reading. To answer critics who might find approach too “redu...

Self-regulation is the ability to regulate one’s thoughts and actions to attain goals. Accordingly, self-regulated learning (SRL) involves plans and behaviors to achieve learning goals. With this in mind, in this study we investigated whether training English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners on the basis of a Self-regulated Learning (SRL) model improved their literal and critical reading co...

This research was designed to investigate the effects of critical thinking and concept mappingtest strategies on EFL Iranian learners' reading comprehension in five sessions during near twomonths. Fifty eight male and female students took a pre-test as a language proficiency test first,then they were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and a control group, twentystudents for critical t...