this study was designed to investigate the effect of grammar and vocabulary pre-teaching, as two types of pre-reading activities, on the iranian efl learners’ reading comprehension from a schema–theoretic perspective. the sample consisted of 90 female students studying at pre-university centers of isfahan.  the subjects were randomly divided into three equal-in-number groups. they participated ...

The purpose of this study was to identify the types peer scaffolding used by Thai EFL students while completing reading activities. Pre-test, post-test and test procedures were implemented measure impact on students’ comprehension. checklist employed in classroom. This found that gained higher mean scores after engaging activities along with strategies. beginner elementary mostly proc...

Textbooks are considered as the common features of the classrooms and are important means to make contributions to curricula. Therefore, their contents are very essential to develop the adequate curriculum planning. A textbook analysis is a means by which different features of the textbooks can be analyzed and hence their effectiveness is validated. This study set out to evaluate the content of...

In this work we analyse the eye movements of people in transit in an everyday environment using a wearable electrooculographic (EOG) system. We compare three approaches for continuous recognition of reading activities: a string matching algorithm which exploits typical characteristics of reading signals, such as saccades and xations; and two variants of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) mixed Gaussia...

Studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging have indicated that activities in the left inferior frontal cortex and left temporoparietal regions are associated with orthographic neighborhood size. To elucidate the temporal dynamics of reading-related cortical activities, we manipulated two types of neighborhood properties for Chinese phonograms, phonetic combinability and consistency. By...