The present study seeks to investigate the potentiality of the translation task as a testing method for measuring reading comprehension. To achieve this objective, two types of translation tests, open-ended and multiple-choice tests, and two types of reading comprehension tests, multiple-choice reading comprehension and open-ended cloze tests were developed in this study. The reliability of the...

Purpose To investigate the capacity for self-monitoring reading comprehension in Brazilian Elementary School students. Methods Fifty-three Elementary students in the 5th and 9th grades from two Public Schools in the city of São Paulo were assessed. They were selected based on their oral reading rate and grouped according to their performance in reading comprehension in the following categorie...

this study explores the effect of online annotations via interactive white boards (iwbs) on reading comprehension of iranian efl learners. to this aim, 60 students from a language institute were selected as homogeneous based on their performance on oxford placement test (2014).then, they were randomly assigned to 3 experimental groups of 20, and subsequently exposed to the research treatment af...

Motivation is one of the important factors which impacts greatly on language learning. One of the most important factors which receives the special focus in foreign language teaching is reading motivation. More recently, studies on reading motivation have also gained much interest. This review paper is going to consider the impact of reading motivation on reading comprehension. In this paper, t...

Recent studies that compared reading comprehension between print and digital displays found a disadvantage for digital reading. A separate line of research has shown that effective use of learning strategies and active learning tools (e.g. annotation tools: highlighting, underlining and notetaking) can improve reading comprehension. Here, the influence of annotation tools on comprehension and t...

PURPOSE To investigate parameters related to fluency, reading comprehension and phonological processing (operational and short-term memory) and identify potential correlation between the variables in Dyslexia and in the absence of reading difficulties. METHOD One hundred and fifteen students from the third to eighth grade of elementary school were grouped into a Control Group (CG) and Group w...

     This study focuses on the effect of user-friendly, impersonal, and hybrid texts on the reading comprehension ability of Iranian foreign language learners. Forty-five students of AlzahraUniversity were selected on the basis of their performance in a recent TOEFL. They were given three different texts (each group of 15 students was given one type) describing the same area of English usage, w...

Comprehension emerges as the results of inference and strategic processes that support the construction of a coherent mental model for a text. However, the vast majority of comprehension skills tests adopt a format that does not afford an assessment of these processes as they operate during reading. This study assessed the viability of the Reading Strategy Assessment Tool (RSAT), which is an au...