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Mohseni, Fatemeh; Seifoori, Zohreh; Ahangari, Saeideh – Cogent Education, 2020
The present quasi-experimental research aimed to examine the differential effect of metacognitive strategy training and critical thinking awareness-raising on EFL learners' reading comprehension of general reading (GR), cause and effect (CE), and argumentative (ARG) texts. The study set to investigate the extent to which raising Iranian EFL…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mohammadi, Roya Ranjbar; Saeidi, Mahnaz; Ahangari, Saeideh – Cogent Education, 2020
Self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies have gained a great prominence in second language reading comprehension; however, to have a comprehensive picture of their efficacy, this study investigated the significant relationships among SRL components, reading comprehension and reading problem solving. Moreover, it examined the effects of SRL…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning
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Hassanzadeh, Zahra; Tamjid, Nasrin Hadidi; Ahangari, Saeideh – Cogent Education, 2019
The current study was an attempt to investigate the possible effects of lexical inference strategy training on Iranian upper-intermediate EFL learners' vocabulary depth and breadth. This quasi-experimental study was conducted among 45 upper-intermediate EFL learners at Simin Language Institute, in Rasht-Iran, who were selected through convenience…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Inferences, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods