Metacognitive reading strategies and reading motivation play a significant role in enhancing
reading comprehension. In an attempt to prove the foregoing claim in a context where there …

Students often experience the university period as a very stressful time. The teacher is a key
figure who can cushion this stressful experience for the student. This study therefore aims to …

This experimental research investigates the impact of teaching metacognitive reading
strategies on the reading comprehension of engineering students in the English for Science …

The ability to read and interpret textbooks and other assigned material is a critical
component of success at university level. Therefore, the aims of this study are twofold: to …

This case study explored adult Chinese-Mandarin-speaking English learners' reading for
academic purposes. Drawing on transactional socio-psycholinguistic perspectives, the …

An essential hypothesis of modern language assessment theory pertains to the interaction
between strategy use ability (strategic competence) and second language knowledge …

For most English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners, both reading and comprehension
skills are challenging to acquire. EFL students find reading challenging due to their inability …

Reading in FL possesses certain challenges for FL readers such as difficulty in inferring
underlying messages in texts and dealing with unfamiliar cultural load. All these challenges …

Metacognitive awareness of reading strategy has a tremendous impact on the educational
process, especially in acquiring a second language. It is concerned with not only what they …

The past decade has witnessed a plethora of research to study the relationship between
reading strategies and reading comprehension, but few studies have examined the brain …