A large body of research in the area of reading instruction has stressed the importance of pre-literacy skills and their role in learning to read. Young children must possess a certain number of skills before they can begin to read. Such skills include letter knowledge, concept …
This dissertation addresses the area of how Arab home life affects the reading abilities of the students in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) University. The research addresses both L1 (Arabic) and L2 (English) literacy, particularly acquisition of reading skills in relation to …
Assessing reading comprehension through written tasks could hinder the reader's ability to demonstrate reading comprehension. Oral assessment could serve as an alternative technique to assess reading comprehension more accurately. To find out whether and to what extent this is t…
Textbooks are often considered as key elements in education. For many students, especially in developed countries, textbooks are their first and early exposure to books and to reading. The education policy in Jordan is trying to design a new curriculum for reading textbooks. Thi…