Coping with Newspaper Syntax: Reading Strategies for L1 and L2 Learners.

Autor/in	Hoekje, Barbara
Titel	Coping with Newspaper Syntax: Reading Strategies for L1 and L2 Learners.
Quelle	(1983), (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Comparative Analysis; Content Analysis; English (Second Language); Higher Education; Newspapers; Readability; Reading Habits; Reading Research; Reading Strategies; Second Language Learning; Sentence Structure; Syntax + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Inhaltsanalyse; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Newspaper; Zeitung; Lesbarkeit; Reading habit; Lesegewohnheit; Leseforschung; Reading strategy; Leselernstufe; Lesetechnik; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Satzbau; Satzstruktur
Abstract	Both sentence length and sentence complexity of various kinds of newspaper prose were examined in a study to determine (1) ways newspaper prose differs from the prose of books native English speaking students chose to read and enjoy reading and (2) whether there are features of newspaper prose other than vocabulary and a lack of international news keeping advanced second language students from reading the news. A random sample of 100 sentences each was taken from two major Philadelphia newspapers, along with a sample of 100 sentences each from two of the major international wire services. In addition, a random sample of 25 sentences each was taken from a sample of 8 books chosen by community college students. These sentences were then compared for sentence length and syntactic constructions, first to identify the differences between them, and second to formulate reading strategies to cope with the special problems presented by the newspaper prose. The analysis revealed that newspaper syntax differed from the book prose in the number rather than the kind of construction, with each construction appearing more frequently in the newspaper prose. Taken as a group, however, the constructions resulted in systematically different sentences. (The paper includes a listing of reading strategies for reading the newspaper. The appendixes list the sample methodology and the book prose samples.) (HOD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01