Reading strategies are of interest for what they reveal about the ways readers manage their interaction with written texts and how these strategies are related to text understanding, acquisition ,storage ,and retrieval of information .In EFL comprehension lessons, the students try to work out interpretations of the meaning related to the written word through the usage of different comprehension strategies. Yet, there are moments where the participants in the classroom fail to reach a successful understanding of the passage read despite the guidance of the teacher. The present research aims at investigating and identifying moments of comprehension failure and reasons behind them .It also aims at specifying the different strategies used in terms of type and number of occurrences. It is hypothesized that some students in EFL classrooms fail to understand parts of written texts because they do not use any kind of strategy at particular stages of the comprehension process. The samples selected for the research are the two sections of first year students in the Department of English language, College of Arts and Letters in Cihan University. Each section included 30 students who study comprehension as a basic course ,through their first academic year, in an average of 3 hours per week. Eight comprehension lessons have been recorded and the passages discussed during these lessons , were chosen from the students' text book ‘’Practice & Progress’’ by L.G. Alexander, 1967. The research provides a brief overview of the studies related to the process of reading comprehension .It also illustrates the ways many linguists identified the factors contributing to understanding written texts during the previous years. This is followed by mentioning the general strategies that are used by learners of the English language with explanation of their meaning and role in comprehending written texts. Section two presents the analysis of the recorded lessons. Though the discussions of eight passages were recorded, only three of them were included in the research due to shortage of space. Moments of comprehension failure are specified by the letters (CF) with reference to the reason. Types of strategies used during the lessons are identified as well. Finally, it is concluded that the students sometimes fail to grasp the meaning of some lines or parts of a text because they don't use certain strategies .The analysis of the lessons also shows that the strategies that are mostly used by the students, in their attempt to understand what they read, are: using prior knowledge, inferring meaning, questioning, visualizing, and determining importance which are used in sequence and number of occurrences that differ from one text to another .On the other hand, strategies like synthesizing and summarizing are hardly ever used in some texts and never used in others. The research also illustrates the significant role of the teacher that contributes to the students’ critical thinking and understanding of the written text
The aim of the research is to design educational software based on Web Quests and to measure its effectiveness in developing information search skills of students at the Department of Educational and Psychological Sciences. The research is experimental in nature using pre-post measurement. The research sample consisted of (91) male and female students from the second grade in the Department of Educational and Psychological Sciences, they were divided into two equal groups; the experimental group consisted of (47) students who adopted the educational software as a studying method, and the control group consisted of (44) students who follow the traditional method. The researchers prepared a list of skills for searching information and they
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The research hypothesizes is that the external Environment
has the responsibility concerning decisions making and behavioral
upon industrial firms. It is, Furthermore, an attempt to review the
problem of closures of private industrial firms in the country, during
the period (1976-1985), i.e. prior to and during the Iraqian- Iranian
war.
The behavioral approach of industrial geography has been
adopted as a theoretical background and the statistical test has
been practiced for the applied purposes.
As result, the research comes out with suggestions,
depending upon previous trials in the field of direction and
formulation of the of the private industrial sector. The chief point
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The study aimed to prepare a practical guide for procedures for auditing the strategies of municipal institutions in achieving sustainable development by adopting the idea of the audit matrix through which a classified report is prepared according to the dimensions of sustainable development, by preparing a specialized audit program for the purpose of auditing strategies for achieving sustainable development and emptying the results of the application of each of the paragraphs The program in the audit matrix that was prepared for the purpose of determining the impact of each observation and linkin
... Show MoreThe research consists of a preface followed by an Introduction which includes the private International Law, its sources, in addition to four sections and a conclusion.Finally, the research concludes with a list of the sources used and also a list of terms and words in English or Latin Language. The four sections of the researchare: Sectionone: Nationality terms group . Sectiontwo: group of terms of Domicil(home country) and status of foreigners (Aliens)
Sectionthree: group of terms of the conflict ofLaws, conflict of the International JudicialJurisdiction,and, Enforcing ForeignJudgments.
Sectionfour: The semantic phenomena which came in the basic terms and words of the private International Law.
Predictability of School Environment in the tendency to aggressive behavior among high primary school students. This study aimed at exploring the Family and school environment predictability of the tendency to aggressive behavior among high primary school students in Irbid Second Directorate of Education. The study sample consisted of 784 male and female students in the high-primary schools of Irbid Second Directorate of Education, chosen as on random cluster sampling method. Three aspects of school environment had the predictability of the tendency to aggressive behavior. The academic orientation of students explained 9.9% of the total variation in the dependant variable while the relationships between peers explained 1.6% and the teach
... Show MoreThe aim of this investigation was to prepare pies stuffed with ground veal as different level of Textured Soy Protein (TSP) that wetted, minced and replaced at (0, 15, 20, 25 and 30%). The effect of partial substitution for veal with TSP quality, sensory characteristics such as color and homogenizing of the stuffing, taste, flavor, juiciness and overall acceptability was evaluated by taste panel. The obtained results showed that product prepared with replaced 15 and 20% were acceptable by panel taste without significant differences compared to control. The values of taste panel score dropped as the rate partial replacement increased a level of TSP 25 and 30% as compared to control. It can be concluded the possibility of using manufacture
... Show MoreThis research aims at identifying the effect of problem solving strategy on the achievement of Kurdish language grammer of femal students at the fourth preperatory school. To achieve the study aims , the researcher has chosen intentionally this sample to apply the experiement . The study sample cosists 0f (58) female students distributed randomly on two groups. The experiemental group is taught according to problem- solving strategy and it is (29) female students, while the control group which is also (29) individuals is taught according to the traditional way of teaching . The two groups have been matched statistically in term of age , the academic achievement for the father and mother , intelligence, and the linguistic ability. The exp
... Show Morethe Current research aims to identify the psychological stressors coping strategies and their relationship to the cognitive motivation among Al-Anbar University students through the following hypotheses: 1) no statistically significant differences at a level (0.05) among the sample according to the instrumental support strategy depending on the variable type and specialization, 2) No statistically significant differences at a level (0.05) among the sample in regard of coping avoiding strategy depending on the variable type and specialization, 3) There is no statistically significant difference at a level (0.05) in cognitive motivation level among Al-Anbar University students, 4) No statistically significant differences at a level (0.05)
... Show MoreThis paper investigates the performance evaluation of two state feedback controllers, Pole Placement (PP) and Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR). The two controllers are designed for a Mass-Spring-Damper (MSD) system found in numerous applications to stabilize the MSD system performance and minimize the position tracking error of the system output. The state space model of the MSD system is first developed. Then, two meta-heuristic optimizations, Simulated Annealing (SA) optimization and Ant Colony (AC) optimization are utilized to optimize feedback gains matrix K of the PP and the weighting matrices Q and R of the LQR to make the MSD system reach stabilization and reduce the oscillation of the response. The Matlab softwar
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The research targets exploring the designs of the kindergartens’ libraries in Baghdad for the perspective of the teachers as well as possible methods of improvements, considering the importance of this type of furniture for the child and its vital role in getting the child into the habit of reading and browsing, since the kindergarten library is the first of its kind that the child encounters in his life, if the relationship between the child and the library is of a positive type the experience with both printed and non-printed materials will be joyful and this type of relationship continues and strengthen with all other types of libraries over time. To achieve the goals of the research, the researcher prepared a focused survey sheet t
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