May 2015

The effects of cultural knowledge on Iranian EFL students’ reading comprehension across male and female learners

Reading comprehension is the most important skill in the absence of oral communication opportunities in foreign language teaching situation. So, the effect of different factors on reading comprehension has been studied. One of these factors is "cultural familiarity" of a text. Is readers' comprehension influenced by "cultural familiarity" of a text? What is the difference between different gender...

Author(s): Danial Shirzadi