Recent trends in pedagogy have focused on more effective ways of teaching reading for the impact it has on general language proficiency. In the present study, we aimed to explore the influence of the cognitive style, convergent/divergent thinking, on reading comprehension performance through...

To become successful learners, students need to comprehend what they read. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds, in particular, may have difficulty comprehending text because they often lack general vocabulary and strategies for organizing information and gleaning knowledge from text. This...

This article presents evidence from a large-scale randomized controlled trial of the effects of four supplemental reading comprehension curricula (Project CRISS, ReadAbout, Read for Real, and Reading for Knowledge). The impact analyses in the study's first year revealed a statistically...

This study evaluated the effectiveness of four supplemental reading comprehension programs in helping disadvantaged fifth graders improve reading comprehension. The study, supported by the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education and conducted over the course of two...

This article presents the results of a study looking at the relationship between genre awareness and reading comprehension. The study explores how 34 randomly selected students of a university in Indonesia understood the characteristics of 10 texts of 5 different genres and comprehended the...

The researcher selected 10 multiple choice questions from the Reading Comprehension of College English Test Band 4, and asked 102 freshmen and 126 postgraduates to answer the questions without reading the source passages. The result shows that the percentage of the correct choice of each of the...