Textual Enhancements and Comprehension with Adult Readers of English in China

Autor/inn/en	Brantmeier, Cindy; Callender, Aimee; Yu, Xiucheng; McDaniel, Mark
Titel	Textual Enhancements and Comprehension with Adult Readers of English in China
Quelle	In: Reading in a Foreign Language, 24 (2012) 2, S.158-185 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-0578
Schlagwörter	Familiarity; Vignettes; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Reading Comprehension; Social Psychology; Cloze Procedure; Second Language Learning; Adults; Recall (Psychology); Chinese; Native Speakers; Multiple Choice Tests; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Ausland; Leseverstehen; Sozialpsychologie; Lückentext; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Abberufung; China; Chinesen; Muttersprachler; Multiple choice examinations; Multiple-choice tests, Multiple-choice examinations; Multiple-Choice-Verfahren
Abstract	The present study utilizes texts from social psychology to examine the effects of textual enhancements on reading comprehension with 185 native adult Chinese speakers learning English in China. Participants read two different vignettes, either with or without an adjunct. Each adjunct consisted of a "what" question along with instructions to either "pause and consider" or "pause and write." Participants also completed written recall, sentence completion, multiple-choice, and a topic familiarity question. Across passages, findings revealed significant effects of passage version on comprehension as measured via recall and sentence completion and no significant effects of passage version on multiple-choice questions. Participants scored almost the same on recall and sentence completion for versions with no adjuncts and versions with "pause and consider" adjuncts, and they scored significantly lower on these assessment tasks for the version with pause and write adjuncts. Participants scored the same on multiple-choice questions for all three versions of both passages. (Contains 6 tables.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Reading in a Foreign Language. National Foreign Language Resource Center, 1859 East-West Road #106, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822. e-mail: readfl@hawaii.edu; Web site: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10