Volume 24, No. 2 Textual enhancements and comprehension with adult readers of English is China

Textual enhancements and comprehension with adult readers of English is China

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Volume 24, No. 2
contributor.author:
Brantmeier, Cindy Callender, Aimee Yu, Xiucheng McDaniel, Mark
date.accessioned:
2020-05-22T02:15:19Z
date.available:
2020-05-22T02:15:19Z
date.issued:
2012-10
description.abstract:
The present study utilizes texts from social psychology to examine the effects of textual enhancements on reading comprehension with 185 native adult Chinese speakers learning English in China. Participants read two different vignettes, either with or without an adjunct. Each adjunct consisted of a ‘what’ question along with instructions to either ‘pause and consider’ or ‘pause and write.’ Participants also completed written recall, sentence completion, multiple-choice, and a topic familiarity question. Across passages, findings revealed significant effects of passage version on comprehension as measured via recall and sentence completion and no significant effects of passage version on multiple-choice questions. Participants scored almost the same on recall and sentence completion for versions with no adjuncts and versions with ‘pause and consider’ adjuncts, and they scored significantly lower on these assessment tasks for the version with pause and write adjuncts. Participants scored the same on multiple-choice questions for all three versions of both passages.
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endingpage:
185
identifier.doi:
10125/66858
identifier.issn:
1539-0578
identifier.uri:
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/66858
number:
2
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
rfl.topic:
Reading Instruction
site_url:
/rfl/item/262
startingpage:
158
subject:
textual enhancements reading adjuncts comprehension Chinese Subject classifications English as a foreign language in China Intermediate learners
title:
Textual enhancements and comprehension with adult readers of English is China
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Article
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Text
volume:
24