Volume 19, No. 1 Content schemata, linguistic simplification, and EFL readers’ comprehension and recall

Content schemata, linguistic simplification, and EFL readers’ comprehension and recall

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Volume 19, No. 1
contributor.author:
Keshavarz, Mohammad Hossein Atai, Mahmoud Reza Ahmadi, Hossein
date.accessioned:
2020-05-22T02:04:06Z
date.available:
2020-05-22T02:04:06Z
date.issued:
2007-04
description.abstract:
This study investigated the effects of linguistic simplification and content schemata on reading comprehension and recall. The participants, 240 Iranian male students of English as a foreign language (EFL), were divided into 4 homogeneous groups, each consisting of 60 participants (30 with high proficiency and 30 with low proficiency). To elicit data, the study used 2 types of texts: content-familiar and content-unfamiliar. Each type appeared in 4 versions: original, syntactically simplified, lexically simplified, and syntactically-lexically simplified. Each participant group was tested on 1 of the linguistic versions of the content-familiar and content-unfamiliar texts. Data analyses showed a significant effect of the content and EFL proficiency, but not of the linguistic simplification, on reading comprehension and recall. The effect of the linguistic simplification on reading comprehension and recall is interpreted in the light of the interaction of content and linguistic simplification.
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endingpage:
33
identifier.doi:
10125/66617
identifier.issn:
1539-0578
identifier.uri:
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/66617
number:
1
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
rfl.topic:
The Reading Process
site_url:
/rfl/item/135
startingpage:
19
subject:
EFL reading comprehension recall content schemata linguistic simplification language proficiency
title:
Content schemata, linguistic simplification, and EFL readers’ comprehension and recall
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Article
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Text
volume:
19