Research has shown that extensive reading offers a wide range of learning benefits to
second language (L2) learners. However, most studies on L2 extensive reading are …

Currently, there is an interest in understanding second/foreign language readers' reading
strategies. They are of interest to many researchers as they show how readers interact with …

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 …

Tests play a powerful role in the Chinese educational system, and exert significant
washback on students' learning. This study investigates the washback effect of the high …

Reading strategies instruction is currently gaining much attention as an effective means of
enhancing reading comprehension. In this research, we examined the effect of Underlining …

Reading is not merely a receptive process of picking up information from the page in a word-
by-word manner (Grabe, 1991). Rather, it is a selective process and characterized as an …

Language learning is intuitively and rationally considered by most to be interactive in nature.
Certainly, we all learned our first language through interaction with parents and caregivers …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of using two visual-while-reading
strategies, knowledge-mapping (KM) and underlining, on the performance of intermediate …

This study aims to determine whether students who get instruction using the KWL (Know-
Want to know-Learn) method and those who receive instruction using the conventional …

A high percentage of bachelor test-takers who failed the unified entrance examination test in
2021 demonstrated the lack of adequate reading strategies such as contextual guessing for …