The guided reading teaching approach is a commonly utilised practice that teachers have employed for over 20 years, both in Australia and abroad. What the entails, however, can be open to interpretation—an outcome highlights challenge of describing conceptualising clear unambiguous terms. This study addressed this issue ambiguity by exploring whether reading, rather than being singular strategy...

Abstract The role of EFL lecturers’ first language (L1) in the EFL courses has been an ongoing debate. A monolingual approach to EFL suggests that the use of the target language solely in foreign language (FL) classroom improves learning of the target language. Accordingly, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the attitude of Iranian lecturers and EFL learners towards using L1 as...

The Text mining guided by No Textual data (TNT) is not intended to extract the information contained in the images, aiming the information included in the text that describes these images. In other words, it aims to present to the reader the information about the images next to them, regardless of its real position in the document. Reading, while focusing on no textual data (images, pictures, v...

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This paper describes our use of inter-word latency, the delay before a student speaks a word in the course of reading a sentence, to assess oral reading automatically. The context of our study is a Reading Tutor that uses automated speech recognition to listen to children read aloud. Using the data from 58 students from grades 1 through 4, we used inter-word latency to predict scores on externa...