The Interaction between Iranian EFL Learners’ Interest in Reading Comprehension Topics and their Reading Comprehension Ability

Abstract

According to Anderson (2003), reading is the interaction of four things including the reader, the text, the fluent reading or the ability or read at an appropriate rate with adequate comprehension, and strategic reading, or the ability of the reader to use a variety of reading strategies to accomplish a purpose for reading (p. 8). Discovering the best methods and techniques or processes the learners choose to access, is the goal of research in reading strategies.

This article reports on an empirical study that examines the learner’s ability in reading comprehension. On the other hand, the important issue which the researchers mentioned was attention to genders’ interest in different topics in reading comprehension. So, the study was carried out at two high schools in Markazi province.

The results has shown that female and male students were not different in general reading comprehension, however male learners could answer male based text better than female learners while female learners had priority in female based text.