The research reported here examined the relative effectiveness of semantic mapping, as an interactive pre-reading strategy, on reading comprehension of Iranian undergraduate students (non-EFL majors). It also examined whether there was an interaction between gender and the effect of teaching semantic mapping strategy on reading comprehension. The participants in this study consisted of 120 male...

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...

This study was designed to investigate the effects of gender and Schema-based pre-reading activities on the Iranian EFL learners’ reading comprehension. The sample consisted of 60 male and female students studying at second-grade high school in Abhar city. Two reading passages (“Charles Dickens and the Little Children”, and “Hic, Hic, Hic”) were randomly selected from second-grade English textb...

this study was designed to investigate the effects of gender and schema-based pre-reading activities on the iranian efl learners’ reading comprehension. the sample consisted of 60 male and female students studying at second-grade high school in abhar city. two reading passages (“charles dickens and the little children”, and “hic, hic, hic”) were randomly selected from second-grade english textb...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect CIRC learning model on students' reading comprehension achievement in boarding schools. method used is experimental by comparing results pre-test and post-test control class with class. subjects were 70 students who divided into a an This uses independent samples t test analysis technique showing that sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 <0.05, which me...

The research objective was to find out the correlation between students’ reading speed and comprehension achievement of tenth-grade students MA Al Fatah Kota Mulya. formulation problem in this “Is there any significant Mulya?”. For population, is from tenth grade Mulya contains 20 students. In here sample all population. Then sampling done by utilizing purposive sampling. A descriptive method a...

Abstract Reading in upper-elementary grades includes comprehending complex texts and learning disciplinary-specific vocabulary. This study aims to determine the effects of a computer-adaptive supplementary reading program on fifth-grade students’ achievement. Using propensity score matching create equivalent groups 450 students for both control intervention (N = 900), quasi-experimental design ...