Comparing the strategic behavior of more successful vs. less successful readers of multiple technical reading texts

• Published in: Innovation in language learning and teaching Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 125 - 138
• Main Authors: Karimi, Mohammad Nabi, Shabani, Mohammad Bagher
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 01.01.2013; Routledge
• Subjects: College Students; English (Second Language); Females; Foreign Countries; Inferences; Iran; Language Proficiency; Likert Scales; Metacognition; more successful vs. less successful readers; multiple texts comprehension; Obstetrics; Problem Solving; Protocol Analysis; Questionnaires; Reading Comprehension; Reading Skills; Reading Strategies; Scores; Second Language Instruction; Statistical Analysis; Textbooks; Iran

Recently, reading researchers have come to assume that the ability to synthesize units of information across multiple texts on a topic by comparing, contrasting, synthesizing, integrating, and building a mental representation of them - referred to as multiple-documents literacy - is a far more requi...