This study investigates the effectiveness of metacognitive strategies on reading comprehension and comprehension strategies of 11th-grade male students in Kuwaiti high schools in the subject of Arabic language. This study concentrates on two metacognitive strategies (the K-W-L P…
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This study was designed to explore the use of comprehension strategies on the reading comprehension of culturally familiar and culturally unfamiliar texts when they are presented to children from Pakistan who are engaged in English as a second language programs in the New York C…
Scope and method of study. The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between EFL learners' perceived reading strategies, vocabulary size, and reading comprehension. In addition to providing descriptive information about each variable in this relationship, th…
The purpose of this study was to understand the differences of conscious constructive responses and shifting strategies with the goal of understanding reading comprehension while reading nonfiction, fiction, and poetry texts. This naturalistic diagnostic study uses a think-aloud…
Stories, themes, concepts and references are organized structurally and purposefully in most books. A person reading a book needs to understand themes and concepts within the context. Schank’s Dynamic Memory theory suggested that building on existing memory structures is essenti…
This thesis explores the effects of discourse context, specifically whether a referent is discourse-given or discourse-new, on the online processing of the dative alternation and the active/passive alternation. Previous research provides support that the discourse status of a re…
This study investigated the effects of reading comprehension strategy awareness and use on main idea comprehension and recall in first and second languages for Arabic-speaking Libyan university students. The research examined the effects of general reading proficiency, text diff…
Bible translation is a communication process. In any information transfer, there is always a risk of miscommunication. In Bible translation that risk is greatly compounded as the message is a message from God passed down through the ages to present day audiences. Translators' on…
This thesis examined the performance patterns of two Persian-speaking agrammatic patients and ten normal, Persian-speaking controls in two experiments, one syntactic and the other morphological. The goal of the Syntactic Experiment was to assess the patients I sensitivity to var…
Mastery of idioms in a second language is an important part of learners' lexical and cultural competence. This study provided insights into the processes that partake in interlanguage idiomatics. It also looked at the role of participants' first language in the comprehension and…
This dissertation contains three studies that investigate whether attested patterns of constituent order distribution and change in the world's languages can be attributed, in part, to cognitive preferences for some constituent orders over others. To assess these preferences, se…
This study investigated the effectiveness of two methods of instruction, Teacher-Based Instruction (TBI) versus Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), in improving undergraduate Arab learners' English reading ability in the three aspects of speed, comprehension and vocabula…
Philosophers and theologians have debated for centuries about man’s ultimate end. Aristotle postulated that man’s end was primarily intellectual. The early ideas of human happiness in Christianity did not depend upon man’s intellect, but instead argued that some sort of union wi…
Using a 3 x 2 experimental design, this study focuses on the cognitive processes of understanding and remembering from television news. Data were presented from an experimental 3 x 2 design in which the two independent variables (a) graphic visualization at three levels (no grap…