The American Federation of Teachers (1999) has stated that "the most fundamental responsibility of schools is teaching students to read" (p. 7). The central purpose of reading is comprehension--constructing meaning from text. The purpose of the present study was to identify, review, and summarize the research published in professional peer-reviewed journals related to reading comprehension and ...

Article history: Received date: 26 August, 2016 Review date: 9 October 2016 Accepted date:21October 2016 Printed on line:1 September  Purpose: The aim of the current study was investigating the role of Philosophy for Children (p4c) teaching approach in increasing first grade female high school students reading comprehension in Tehran educational five zone. Materials and...

Teaching How to Improve Reading Comprehension: One Way of Increasing Iranian Students' Scores on PIRLS M. Najafi Paazoki, Ph.D. The performance of Iranian students on the international reading tests (PIRLS) is indicative of a major problem in reading comprehension. From a constructivist perspective, there are strategies that can be learned and used in order to improve reading comp...

English as the first foreign language in Indonesia has important learn. Some aspects leaning cover listening, speaking reading and writing. All are crucial for learners to be mastered thus, can essential aspect of all. In reading, difficulties that occur during lesson is activity. It necessary teachers establish a good activity teaching learning The author implemented group discussion answer pr...