• Mona Bahmani

  Author

• Reza Biria

  Author

To investigate the influence of “summary” as an advance organizer on reading comprehension
ability of Iranian EFL learners, eighty four junior high school students were selected via cluster
random sampling as the participants of the study. Having gone through a quasi-experimental
research design and the statistical analysis procedures the study yielded the following results:
(a) the use of summary as an advance organizer had a highly advantageous influence on reading
comprehension ability of Iranian EFL learners, (b) gender was an interacting factor as the male
participants outperformed their female counterparts, and (c) proficiency level of the students
was an influential element as the lowly proficient students attained better results and revealed a
further benefit for being exposed to summary as an advance organizer compared with the highly
proficient students.

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