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Download full textMohd-Asraf, Ratnawati; Abdullah, Hazlina – English Language Teaching, 2016
This paper describes the results of a study that examined the attitudes of Malaysian primary school boys and girls toward reading in English as a Second Language. Using the Students' Reading Attitude Survey, which the researchers adapted from McKenna and Kear (1990) Elementary Reading Attitude Survey, 2,666 responses were analysed using the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Males, Females, Student Attitudes
Yang, Yang – English Language Teaching, 2016
As a very important skill both in English teaching and learning, reading strategy has been emphasized at home and abroad for a long time. Many scholars and teachers make research on undergraduates of English major or non-English major. However, the postgraduates are often neglected. Actually, it is also imperative to make a study among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Reading Strategies, English (Second Language)
Sawangsamutchai, Yutthasak; Rattanavich, Saowalak – English Language Teaching, 2016
The objective of this research is to compare the English reading comprehension and motivation to read of seventh grade Thai students taught with applied instruction through the genre-based approach and teachers' manual. A randomized pre-test post-test control group design was used through the cluster random sampling technique. The data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Secondary School Students
Praveen, Sam D.; Rajan, Premalatha – English Language Teaching, 2013
"A picture is worth a thousand words." In a modern-day classroom, students are surrounded by visual imagery through textbooks, notice boards, television, videos, or computers. Many middle school classrooms are filled with colorful pictures and photographs. However, it is unclear how--or if --these images impact the middle school ESL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Pan, Ching-Ying; Wu, Hui-Yi – English Language Teaching, 2013
This experimental study aims to investigate the effects of using cooperative learning to enhance the English reading comprehension and learning motivation of EFL freshmen by comparing the cooperative learning instruction and traditional lecture instruction. This experiment was implemented in a Freshman English Reading course, a two credit course,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Amiryousefi, Mohammad; Kassaian, Zohreh – English Language Teaching, 2010
The present research was conducted to examine the relative effectiveness of two instructional approaches to second language vocabulary learning: the "Reading Only" (RO) approach and the "Reading Plus" (RP) approach. To carry out this study, sixty EFL students from Shahed Pre-University Center of Isfahan were selected and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Shokouhi, Hossein; Maniati, Mahmood – English Language Teaching, 2009
This study was intended to determine whether or not the genre of a reading text affects the incidental vocabulary acquisition of L2 learners while reading. To this aim, 40 Iranian EFL students whose vocabulary knowledge was within a limited range (already determined by Nation's Vocabulary Levels Test) were divided into two groups of 20 each for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development
