Effect of topic familiarity on literal and higher-order reading comprehension - by Youssra Sami Kfoury
Abstract
Activating background knowledge is known to play an important role in reading co mprehension. Many researchers around the world have investigated this topic. Mos t of the studies, however, were conducted in monolingual intermediate and second ary school s
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Thesis (M.A.)--American University of Beirut, Dept. of Education, 2007.;"Advisor: Dr. Ghazi Ghaith, Professor, Education--Member of Committee: Dr. Saouma BouJaoude, Professor, Education--Member of Committee: Dr. Fahmi Banafa, Assistant Professor, Educatio