Persian Native Speakers Reading Persian and English Texts: Their Strategic Behavior to Overcome Syntactic and Semantic Problems

Autor/in	Alimorad, Zahra
Titel	Persian Native Speakers Reading Persian and English Texts: Their Strategic Behavior to Overcome Syntactic and Semantic Problems
Quelle	In: Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 19 (2015) 1, S.133-148 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1345-8353
Schlagwörter	Native Speakers; Indo European Languages; Semantics; Syntax; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; English Literature; Foreign Countries; College Students; Teaching Methods; Reading Instruction; Questionnaires; Reading Strategies; Cloze Procedure; Student Attitudes; Iran + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Muttersprachler; Indoeuropäisch; Semantik; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Englische literatur; Ausland; Collegestudent; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Leseunterricht; Fragebogen; Reading strategy; Leselernstufe; Lesetechnik; Lückentext; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	This study aimed to discover semantic and syntactic problems Persian native speakers might have while reading English and Persian texts and different strategies they use to overcome those problems. To this end, a convenient sample of 40 intermediate students studying English Literature at Shiraz University was selected. Twenty of them were asked to do a cloze test in Persian (L1) and the rest to do the English version of the same text (L2). Then, a questionnaire was administered to find out the strategies they used while doing the cloze tests. Results showed that Persian native speakers mostly used syntactic strategies while reading an English text and semantic ones while reading the Persian version of the same text. This finding highlights the need for a stronger emphasis on different syntactic features of languages in the teaching of reading English to Persian native speakers. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics. Department of English, Namseoul University, 21 Maeju-ri, Seonghwan-eup, Cheonan-city, Choongnam, Korea 330-707. Tel: +82-2-3290-1995; e-mail: paalkorea@yahoo.co.kr; Web site: http://paal.kr/journals/journals.html
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01