Volume 14, No. 2 Chinese L1 Schoolchildren Reading in English: The Effects of Rhetorical Patterns

Chinese L1 Schoolchildren Reading in English: The Effects of Rhetorical Patterns

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Volume 14, No. 2
contributor.author:
Sharp, Alastair
date.accessioned:
2020-05-22T01:57:13Z
date.available:
2020-05-22T01:57:13Z
date.issued:
2002-10
description.abstract:
Reading comprehension can be seen as a process dependent on the interaction of 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' processes. An important, but neglected, feature of this process concerns the effects of rhetorical organization. This article describes an experiment in which four rhetorically different texts, with identical subject matter, were read by 490 Hong Kong Chinese school children (mean age 14.1), studying in English (their L2). Comprehension was measured by a cloze procedure and by recall protocols. One way ANOVA was used to investigate the effects of different texts on the test scores. The results showed a clear difference in comprehension between the text types and suggest that pedagogical support to increase awareness of rhetorical patterns would be beneficial.
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endingpage:
135
identifier.doi:
10125/66769
identifier.issn:
1539-0578
identifier.uri:
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/66769
number:
2
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
rfl.topic:
The Reading Process
site_url:
/rfl/item/60
startingpage:
111
subject:
rhetorical organization comprehension Hong Kong Chinese text analysis text structure
title:
Chinese L1 Schoolchildren Reading in English: The Effects of Rhetorical Patterns
type:
Article
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Text
volume:
14