The effectiveness of textual structural factors on students' reading comprehension in English language course
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to study and compare the effectiveness of educational text variables on the reading comprehension in English language course of Islamic Azad University students. The sample group consisted of students studying in East Tehran Branch who were selected by random sampling. The participants were randomly assigned to experimental groups after random sampling. The instruments utilized were Texts and a Questionnaire for Comprehension. The texts included nine textual educational variables with similar content. An unrelated raw text was used to construct the text, and then the educational variables were used for each project according to the goals of the project. One-way ANOVA was used for data analysis. The findings of this study did not confirm the effectiveness of text type on students' reading comprehension.
Keywords:Educational variables; reading comprehension; text; text organization; English language course; university students.
Downloads
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (SeeThe Effect of Open Access).