Volume 34, No. 2 Reading comprehension component skills of Chinese-speaking ESL and EFL learners

Reading comprehension component skills of Chinese-speaking ESL and EFL learners

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Volume 34, No. 2
contributor.author:
Ke, Sihui Echo
date.accessioned:
2022-10-14T22:26:46Z
date.available:
2022-10-14T22:26:46Z
date.issued:
2022-10-15
description.abstract:
This research compared the contributions of lexical inferencing, decoding, and listening comprehension to reading comprehension in Chinese-speaking learners of English as a second language (ESL) enrolled in university bridging programs in the U.S. and Chinese-speaking university learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in mainland China. The findings suggested that the contributions of these three reading component skills differed in ESL and EFL contexts: In the ESL context, both second language (L2) lexical inferencing and L2 decoding were significant predictors of L2 reading comprehension, but L2 listening comprehension did not correlate with L2 reading comprehension. In the EFL context, L2 lexical inferencing was the only significant predictor of L2 reading comprehension. Thus, it appears that the Simple View Reading (decoding + listening comprehension = reading comprehension) is not applicable to Chinese-speaking adult learners of L2 English because learners in both ESL and EFL contexts rely on word-level reading subskills.
endingpage:
324
identifier.citation:
Ke, S. (2022). Reading comprehension component skills of Chinese-speaking ESL and EFL learners. Reading in a Foreign Language, 34(2), 306–324. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/67427
identifier.issn:
1539-0578
identifier.uri:
https://hdl.handle.net/10125/67427
number:
2
publicationname:
Reading in a Foreign Language
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
site_url:
/rfl/item/559
startingpage:
306
subject:
Simple View of Reading Chinese English writing system context
title:
Reading comprehension component skills of Chinese-speaking ESL and EFL learners
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Article
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Text
volume:
34