This contrastive study was conducted to contrastively analyze English and Farsi newspaper opinion columns in terms of the frequency of different types of stance markers.60 newspaper opinion columns (30 written in English and 30 written in Farsi) from 10 wide spread newspapers published in the United States and Iran in 2015 were analyzed. Hyland’s (2005) model of stance markers (hedges, boosters...

This research discusses about the form of literacy implementation at SDN 48/I Penerokan. Literacy is a person's language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). According to national movement, there are six kinds basic that students must possess, namely: numeracy literacy, scientific financial cultural digital literacy. study uses qualitative with descriptive method, describe activi...

this study investigated the effect of reciprocal teaching (rt) on efl learners’ reading comprehension. fifty intermediate learners participated in the study and were sampled as the experimental (n = 25) and control groups (n = 25). participants were male and ranged in age from 15 to 16. the reading section of key english test (ket, 2010) was used as the pretest to assess the participants’ entry...

This study investigated the effect of empathy in text comprehension. After 89 university students read a document which described how to write an educational practical report, they took a comprehension test and responded on the following scales: parallel empathy, reactive empathy, subjective comprehension, and attitude. In the framework of dual-process theory, parallel empathy depends on system...

This study aims at finding out the implementation of reading aloud through virtual meetings on EFL primary students. Students have one month to use zoom meeting application as medium implementing read aloud. The design this is qualitative method using observation, questionnaire checklist, and interview. subjects were grade 4 students Nongekeng school, Thailand. results from data analysis show t...

Distant reading, an empirical and quantitative approach in literary studies proposed by Franco Moretti, has raised a lively debate attracted criticisms from "traditional scholars." An important reason behind these is the need for solid theoretical foundations: distant reading perhaps first methodology that do not include specific theory of literature, ontology literary. Much work field derives ...

the present study attempted to introduce shared reading as one of the most effective techniques in cultivating the learners’ reading and writing abilities. to this end, 50 homogenous students were assigned to the control and experimental groups following the administration of a standardized english proficiency test. thenceforth, based on writing and reading pretest scores of the learners on a g...

this study seeks to examine how teachers’ educational background (those who have educated in tefl in comparison to those who have educated in literature) may influence their beliefs and attitudes on language learning, teaching and the teaching methods they apply in their classes. on a general basis, depending on teachers’ opinion, learning process might be seen as behavioristic, inductive, inte...

this study was an attempt to investigate whether teaching critical reading strategies had any significant effect on intermediate efl learners’ vocabulary retention. to fulfill the purpose of this study, 72 male and female students within the age range of 17 to 32 years studying at farzan and farzanegan language schools in tehran at intermediate level were selected from a total number of 114 par...