This investigation aims at exploring immediate and delayed effects of extraneous cognitive load caused by the presentation mode of an English text and of English verbal working memory capacity of advanced learners of English ...

Teaching a foreign language has been thought of as developing particular skills, such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The reading skill in language teaching has gained more importance since the 1970's. After ...

This thesis has two main goals. First, the relative contribution to foreign language reading comprehension of the following individual-difference variables is explored: the reader̕s prior knowledge on the text content, ...