The purpose of this study is to identify the most important concepts related to schema theory as perceived by the reading teachers in Saudi Arabia, and to investigate whether there are differences in teachers' perceptions depending on their qualifications (bachelor's, diploma) a…
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The purpose of this study is to investigate teachers' perceptions of the most important educational factors that affect reading achievement in public elementary schools of Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire included 21 items was distributed to 300 male and female elementary teacher…
This study investigated the opinions and perceptions of Saudi beginning EFL students regarding the reading difficulties which they perceive that they encounter when reading English as a foreign language, and the factors which cause them these reading difficulties. In this study,…
The purpose of this study was to analyze and evaluate the progress of student performance in reading and writing for 2 years in mixed-age classrooms as compared to students in traditional classrooms. The 471 subjects evaluated in the study were those who completed their first 2 …
People throughout the world seem to use metaphor, and current psycholinguistic research suggests that metaphorical statements are accessed and processed as easily as literal ones by native speakers. Non-native speakers, however, may find that culture-specific elements of metapho…
Second language learning does not merely reflect a cognitive and linguistic ability, but occurs in social contexts with dominant and subordinate ethnocultural groups and varying attitudes among all of them towards each other and each other's languages. This study addressed two m…
Fourteen Iranian-Canadian bilingual students were tested for language ability as well as cognitive and phonological processing skills in two languages: Farsi and English. They were compared to 30 Iranian monolingual chronological age matched students and 30 Canadian chronologica…
Literacy is best understood not merely as a functional tool but as a relationship between self and other. Viewed as relationship, literacy is a vivid point of encounter and difference between cultures and worldviews. When literacy is projected as a neutral and objective medium f…
The primary purpose of this investigation was to explore an instructional approach for reading, writing, and talking about literature in an EFL environment. The instructional approach investigated in this study is Transactional Literature Discussions (TLD), which has an aim of f…
This study compares native English, Spanish, Lao, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Arabic, and all other ELL students over one, two, three, and four-year spans to determine if certain groups appear to face more difficulties in developing early reading mastery by third grade. This st…
In order to determine if kindergarten students could be taught to make or improve the comprehension strategy of text-to-self connection during reading, the think-aloud instructional approach was taught whole group using read-aloud books over a six-week period (Baumann, Jones, & …
Short vowels are believed to impact the reading accuracy of all types of readers in Arabic. Inconsistent findings were reported in previous research on the effect of short vowels on reading accuracy. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of short vowels …
With increasing opportunities to study abroad, learning to read in a foreign language has become increasingly important for countless second language learners. International students in pursuit of higher education degrees are required and expected to read in the target language …
Reading comprehension is an essential part in developing any language and literacy program. Many literacy programs have taken care to focus on improving reading comprehension instruction at different grade and ability levels, including English as a Second Language and English as…
This study examined Malay Language elementary reading textbooks to determine whether or not these textbooks contain gender stereotypes, and to see how these textbooks reflected the changing role and status of Malaysian women. The content analysis was used as an analysis strategy…
Purpose. The purposes of the study were: (1) to isolate a set of variables which could be used to predict text difficulty in Malay and (2) to construct a practical, empirically based readability formula for Malaysian prose. Procedure. This was a text analysis study in which grad…
The study investigated the effects of first language (L1) orthographic structures on cognitive processing in second language (L2) reading. More specifically, two aspects of L1 orthographic effects were examined: (a) the effects of the basic unit of representation on acoustic cod…
The comparison was studied between the reading ability of first grade students and the number of hours that the child had spent in the kindergarten a year earlier. The researcher wanted to know whether a full-day kindergarten program or a half-day kindergarten program was more b…