This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive strategy instruction on English reading comprehension of Iranian advanced students. A total of 60 participants took part in the present study. The participants (n=20) in one experimental group were provided with the cognitive training condition only, while the participants (n=20) in the other experimental group were exposed to both a...

Metacognitive strategies have been investigated as helping tools for students’ reading comprehension, but their use may vary between males and females. Though gender is an essential factor in language learning, few studies highlighted the influence of on metacognitive strategy by Indonesian students. To fill gap, this study during academic from a perspective. A mixed-method was adopted, with op...

Abstract This study examined how to improve students’ regulation of task-oriented reading (TOR). TOR encompasses and information processing needed perform a specific task. Previous studies suggest students can benefit from collaboration script enhance socially shared TOR. The elicits discussions about task perception, strategy selection, reflection. aimed examine the depth sharedness metacognit...

The present study was an attempt to investigate the effect of meta-cognitive strategy (planning, self-monitoring) awareness raising instruction on reading comprehension of Iranian ESP learners. Participants of three groups each comprising of 21 Iranian male students studying “Civil Engineering” in “Islamic Azad University of Buin Zahra” were selected and assigned to three groups: two experiment...

The present study examined the cognitive processing strategies of good and poor readers from two different grades and attempted to make an information processing analysis of reading. The performance of twenty good and twenty poor readers each from Grade 3 and Grade 5 was compared on tasks of attention, simultaneous and successive processing as well as planning. 2 (Grade) × 2 (Reading Status) an...

The objective of this study was to investigate the reading methods students brought with them to the university. In the process, it also attempts to provide an answer to the question about whether reading strategies are caught or taught. It is generally assumed that since students ‘can’ read, they should know ‘how to read’ and that they are bound to pick up the necessary reading skills along th...

the purpose of the present study was to discover which of the two reading strategies, concept mapping or summarizing, is more effective on esp learners’ reading comprehension of eap texts. to fulfill the purpose of the study, a sample of 94 undergraduate students of accountancy sat for a standardized sample of key english testing (ket). sixty-two students whose scores fell one standard deviatio...