Volume 35, No. 2 The Effects of Chunk Reading Training on the Syntactic Processing Skills and Reading Spans of Japanese Learners of English

The Effects of Chunk Reading Training on the Syntactic Processing Skills and Reading Spans of Japanese Learners of English

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Volume 35, No. 2
contributor.author:
Kosaka, Takumi
date.accessioned:
2023-10-12T19:05:04Z
date.available:
2023-10-12T19:05:04Z
date.issued:
2023-10-16
description.abstract:
The present study investigated the impact of chunk reading training (CRT) on the online syntactic processing and verbal working memory (WM) of Japanese EFL (English as a foreign language) learners in secondary school. For four weeks, the treatment group (N = 31) underwent CRT, while the control group (N = 25) participated in reading training in block format. A reading span test (RST) was administered as the pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest in this study to assess learners’ online syntactic processing and verbal WM. The results showed that syntactic processing and verbal WM increased only in the treatment group after training, but the differences between the two groups were not statistically significant. Nevertheless, these results suggest that CRT has the potential to positively affect the development of learners’ online syntactic processing skills and verbal WM.
endingpage:
292
identifier.citation:
Kosaka, T. (2023). The effects of chunk reading training on the syntactic processing skills and reading spans of Japanese learners of English. Reading in a Foreign Language, 35(2), 270-292. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/67450
identifier.issn:
1539-0578
identifier.uri:
https://hdl.handle.net/10125/67450
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/576
startingpage:
270
subject:
Chunk-and-Pass Model usage-based approaches construction grammar chunk reading training reading span test verbal working memory online syntactic processing Japanese EFL learners secondary school EFL learners
title:
The Effects of Chunk Reading Training on the Syntactic Processing Skills and Reading Spans of Japanese Learners of English
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Article
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Text
volume:
35