This review paper begins with a short discussion on the relationship between first and
second language. Subsequently, it presents a set of models and hypotheses as the main …

Malaysian secondary school students, often proficient readers in their L1, are not
necessarily good readers in the L2 (English). This study investigated L1 and L2 reading …

Learning strategies have been considered an important field of study since 1970s. Since
that time the objective of reviewing studies in this field has been to determine the …

Usually, Iranian students are not good in English which is considered as their foreign
language. In this study, the researcher tries to investigate L1 and L2 reading strategies of …

This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the blend of explicit contrastive grammar
instruction and the existing teaching approach in KBSM, Communicative Language …

The present study aimed to find out the effect of summarizing and presentation strategies on
Iranian intermediate EFL learners' reading comprehension. 61 students were selected and …

The utilization of the first language (L1) in English as a second language classrooms has
sparked considerable debate. Differing viewpoints rooted in various theories of second …

In this paper, we validate Macaro's (2006) model of strategy use among language learners
by assessing the amount of neural activity around the prefrontal cortex, the supposed locus …

The use of L1 in L2 learning (and teaching) is a controversy of long history which typically
appears as a debate between the audio-lingual and the cognitive-code approaches to L2/FL …

Las estrategias en la comprensión lectora dentro de la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras
ha sido el tema central de numerosos estudios, sin embargo, los resultados presentados …