Abstract
Collocation refers to a group of two or more words that often go together or located in a certain manner in speech and writing. This research was intended to observe the impact of collocation instruction on Kuwaiti ESL/ EFL learners’ reading comprehension. The setting of this pragmatic research was English Language Unit (ELU), Kuwait University. For this purpose, 80 Arabic-speaking English learners, both male and female, at intermediate level were selected from English Language Unit. The participants’ age ranged 22-25 years. Their level of English was determined on the basis of their scores on Nelson Proficiency Test which was administered at the same time in four different classes i.e., two classes as the experimental group while the other two classes as the control group for the purpose of recent research. Some participants, however, were disqualified from the data analysis because a few of them didn’t show up in the pre-experimental test, while others missed some of the sessions in the experimental stage, or failed to answer the questionnaire. Due to these reasons, the participants in the experimental group and the control group were not equal. Finally, there were 32 students in the experimental group and 35 students in the respective control group. Therefore, the final total number of the sample was 67 subjects. The statistics for this study were collected from 67 participants. The paired-sample t-test showed very interesting results. The participants in the experimental group performed better than the participants in the control group in reading comprehension test. This research verified that collocation instruction, before the test is administered, had an important impact on Kuwaiti ESL/ EFL learners’ reading comprehension.
Highlights
As the dynamic of the investment changes it enhances the importance of decision making which is the part of the Behavioral finance
The result shows that risk aversion is an important criterion in decision making but the investor that are risk averse are more logical and rational (Hunjra et al, 2012)
These believe and information create or force the investor to take any decision it can be an overreaction of available information or it can be a suitable decision for the betterment of the firm
Summary
As the dynamic of the investment changes it enhances the importance of decision making which is the part of the Behavioral finance. If the organization makes an appropriate decision of investment it will result in an increase of firm productivity and outcome (Mayfield et al, 2008) Researchers such as Kengatharan and Kengatharan (2014), Qadri and Shabbir (2014), Nofsinger and Varma (2013), highlighted the positive relationship between behavioural factors and decision making of investment in the stock market by an investor. This research focuses on the detailed analysis of the experience of the investor as well as the corporate governance and other factors It covers both theoretical and observed involvement of the factor in the decision making of investment. The study is limited to the investment decisions of the Iraqi investors it covers the moderating factors such as age, gender and financial education of the investors which is the contribution of the current study and in this way this study adds value to the current state of knowledge in the domain of behavioral finance
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