The effectiveness of textual structural factors on students' reading comprehension in English language course

The purpose of this study was to study and compare the effectiveness of educational text variables on the reading comprehension in English language course of Islamic Azad University students. The sample group consisted of students studying in East Tehran Branch who were selected by random sampling. The participants were randomly assigned to experimental groups after random sampling. The instruments utilized were Texts and a Questionnaire for Comprehension. The texts included nine textual educational variables with similar content. An unrelated raw text was used to construct the text, and then the educational variables were used for each project according to the goals of the project. One-way ANOVA was used for data analysis. The findings of this study did not confirm the effectiveness of text type on students' reading comprehension.  Keywords:Educational variables; reading comprehension; text; text organization; English language course; university students.