Volume 27, No. 1 Reading and learning from L2 text: Effects of reading goal, topic familiarity, and language proficiency

Reading and learning from L2 text: Effects of reading goal, topic familiarity, and language proficiency

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Volume 27, No. 1
contributor.author:
Horiba, Yukie Fukaya, Keiko
date.accessioned:
2020-05-22T02:20:22Z
date.available:
2020-05-22T02:20:22Z
date.issued:
2015-04
description.abstract:
This study examined the effect of reading goal, topic-familiarity, and language proficiency on text comprehension and learning. English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) students with high and low topic-familiarity read and recalled a text. Some were told in advance to expect a recall task in a particular language—the first language (L1) or second language (L2)—and recalled in the same language (the L1-L1 condition and the L2-L2 condition). Others were told of the L1 recall before reading and later recalled in the L2 (the L1-L2 condition). It was found that content recall was enhanced in the L1-L1 condition whereas incidental vocabulary learning benefited from the L2-L2 condition. Language proficiency affected overall content recall while topic-familiarity facilitated processing of specific content information. These findings suggest that reading goal affects resource allocation during text processing, with topic-familiarity and language proficiency intervening additively.
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endingpage:
46
identifier.doi:
10125/66699
identifier.issn:
1539-0578
identifier.uri:
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/66699
number:
1
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
rfl.topic:
Reading Instruction
site_url:
/rfl/item/312
startingpage:
22
subject:
reading goal topic familiarity language proficiency content recall incidental vocabulary learning
title:
Reading and learning from L2 text: Effects of reading goal, topic familiarity, and language proficiency
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Article
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Text
volume:
27