Analysis of the effect of content familiarity and gender on english as a foreign language reading comprehension by spanish university students

The essential question that students of language origins deal with is not that of the origin of the medium of language, but language conceived as a method of communication..

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that reading authentic literary material in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom can improve students’ language learning skills as

Comparing Spanish and Japanese against the English language we found that both languages have fewer vowel and consonant sounds than in English. In the case of

languages of study: Spanish, Catalan and English as a foreign language. Learners’

The analysis of protagonist and antagonist characters focuses on variables such as: type and number, age, gender, nationality, skills, relationship between the

The study was designed to investigate the usage and its frequency of language learning memory strategies by those students who are learning English as a

On the other hand at Alalakh Level VII and at Mari, which are the sites in the Semitic world with the closest affinities to Minoan Crete, the language used was Old Babylonian,

Table 2 shows the effect sizes between the background variables gender, immigration background and home language and the PISA scores in science, reading, and