Reading performance of efl students

The reading comprehension skill is considered as one of the four fundamental language skills that an EFL learner must perform. Actually, it is not an easy skill since most of learners have many reading issues. The purpose of this present work is to investigate on these reading difficulties that grade 10 students at the Asian International Highschool face, and to identify their reading problems and the reasons behind their weaknesses in performing the reading task.

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A plethora of studies have been conducted to examine the relationship between EFL students’ use of strategies and reading comprehension. Findings from those studies agree on a consensus that reading strategies possess a significant relationship with reading performance. This study functions as an attempt to contribute to previous findings by examining how students develop their reading strategies acquired from thematic texts at high school level to university level with authentic texts.

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The study looked at the efficiency of the Memrise vocabulary learning tool in EFL students’ lexical resource through reading comprehension performance, in this case, the third-year students, Department of English, University of Foreign Languages, Hue University. This is an experimental research with the participation of 40 third-year EFL students who were equally divided into the experiment and the control groups...

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This paper investigates the influence of cultural background knowledge on EFL reading comprehension. To explore the general assumption that cultural background knowledge helps students to better comprehend a text, a reading comprehension test including two passages describing a Vietnamese and a Chilean national holiday was developed.

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The present study aims to find out the effects of cognitive reading strategy training on Vietnamese EFL students’ reading performance in an upper secondary school in Vinh Long province, Vietnam. Furthermore, this study aims to find out students’ perceptions on the effectiveness of the training session in their use of cognitive reading strategies. The two groups, including 32 students in the experimental group and 37 students in the control group, participated in the study.

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This article examines the nature of English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ appraisal confidence and appraisal calibration in EFL reading comprehension. Appraisal confidence refers to the degree to which test takers identify the probability that their test answer is correct or appropriate in percentage terms (e.g., 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, or 100%). Appraisal calibration refers to the accuracy of test takers’ appraisal confidence by comparing their appraisal confidence to their test performance in percentage terms. Two hundred and three students studying Master of Education (M.

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