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
Focused research problem that every work of any kind or size has signs indicating it and reveal the nature of either positive aims to achieve the objectives of the organization or a negative intersects with and contrasts with the context and style is the of work, as much as we care to fulfill the positive initiatives and seek to activate it and it to expect of them development of work and approach of the target by most direct route, we should take care also and just the sane, if not larger by indicators and negative actions because it is the way and means to detect imbalances cases that prevent achieving the desired objectives, or cause waste of money, effort, time, and therefore dispersion energies, efforts and wasted resources wit
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This investigation was carrid out to utilize whey and rice in manufacturing nutritious product with therapeutic virtue . The rice cooked with whey in a ratio 1:10 w/w, then the product was fermented by lactic acid bacteria (LAB) starters that comprise each Lb.acidophilus (Lb.a),Lb.casie(Lb.c) and their mixes at ratios: 1a:1c ;2a:1c ; 1a;2c . The five different starters were used separately in processing fermented products . The best fermentation period was 2 days as hieghest therapeutic bacterial counts were resulted . Antibacterial activity of LAB filtrate from fermented products were obtained before drying and after drying them after 3 months of storage. The tested bacteria were Staph.aureus, E.coli ,and B.subtilis The results reveald
... Show MoreThis study focuses on the basics and the details of production of maize in Wasit province, in order to detect the spatial variation of the cultivation, production and the reality of their geographical distribution. The study has shown that maize is an important field crops grown in this province. The research found many conclusions, including the following: (1) The top area had been planted with maize in Wasit province, was (102888) acres with a total standard degree (Sd) scored at (1.3), in 2004; while the lowest planted area, namely, (43196) acres was planted in 2010 with a standard degree of (-1.6). The rate for the space across the province during the study period amounted to (75456) acres. . (2) The highest rate for the area of cult
... Show MoreTeeth decay is one of the distinctive diseases which infects the children of generation .though it is not adeacly disease, it leads to huge problems , especially if it is infect children in their early childhood .There are many factors which lead to this disease , and to achieve the goal of this research in trying to stop the most important nutrition factors and others reasons that have relation with this disease .The practical application has been done for four months on children , who have been chosen randomly of the age ( 3-5 years) of both sexes , infected with teeth decay , from Baghdad city ( al karkh and al rusafa ) , the number of children reached to 90 child , divided into tow groups 45 male , and( 45 )female .Again they have be
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The diversity in the amount of information and sources of knowledge have made the student unable to control the amount of information only on a fraction of them, and there was a defect and clear to students in the strategies of encoding information, storage and often revolves this shortcoming on the issue is a significant lack of capacity on the academic achievement of many students because of the method or way in which the student in information processing and low academic skills necessary to use a specific strategy to encode and store information in memory and retrieval. The aim of this study is to identify the (Meta Memory components and its relationship in strategies of memory at students in the schools of the best and others). as to
... Show Moreimportant dements whichtheconsideredHeadings and titles areThe Leads to pay attention the reader when he reads a newspaper Because it gives for a reader a summary about significant events and journalism arts which published in a page such as (news، reportage،journalism conversations and interview). On the other hand، all design pros ramming produce new tools in the art of direct and adds all the lends، size، shapes،colours،letters، margins between lines in accurate way in order to pay attention for the reader . The first chapter is focused on the research problem which represented to know the art direct of journalism head line in the first page of Al – Sabah newspaper and the range of advantages of using new techniques and mode
... Show MoreThe present study aims to reveal the extent of the influence of the acquired organizational immune through its dimensions (organizational vaccination, organizational learning, organizational memory, and benchmarking) in the application of knowledge management strategies in its two dimensions (codification strategy, personalization strategy) as well as clarifying that influential relationship between the study variables Because of its importance in reducing resistance to change by responding to the requirements of the environment. A set of main and sub-hypotheses emerged from the study, which was formulated in view of the hypothesis scheme of the study, and i
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