Elaborative Feedback to Enhance Online Second Language Reading Comprehension

Autor/in	Bown, Andy
Titel	Elaborative Feedback to Enhance Online Second Language Reading Comprehension
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 10 (2017) 12, S.164-171 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Reading Comprehension; Feedback (Response); Teaching Methods; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Quasiexperimental Design; Academic Discourse; Reading Materials; Comparative Analysis; Instructional Effectiveness; College Students; Foreign Countries; Pretests Posttests; Computer Assisted Instruction; Scaffolding (Teaching Technique); Control Groups; Experimental Groups; Statistical Analysis; United Arab Emirates + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leseverstehen; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Discourse; Diskurs; Unterrichtserfolg; Collegestudent; Ausland; Computer based training; Computerunterstützter Unterricht; Statistische Analyse; Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Abstract	Many higher education students across the world are studying in situations where a high proportion of the academic materials they encounter are online reading texts written in their second language. While the online medium presents a number of challenges to L2 readers, it also enables the provision of a range of support mechanisms, such as instant feedback. This quasi-experimental study investigated the use of two types of feedback, elaborative and knowledge of response, and compares their effectiveness for enhancing online second language reading comprehension. The participants were 113 Emirati students of L2 English at a higher education college in the United Arab Emirates. Data were collected using a pre-test and a post-test measure of reading comprehension and an online reading comprehension exercise containing either elaborative or knowledge of response feedback. The results of the quasi-experiment showed no significant difference between the effects of the two feedback types on comprehension of an online reading text for the sample as a whole. Equally, for the high-proficiency readers, feedback type had no significant effect on text comprehension. However, with regard to the low-proficiency readers, those receiving elaborative feedback performed significantly better on the post-test than those who received knowledge of response feedback. The findings suggest that elaborative feedback can enhance online L2 reading comprehension but that it needs to be tailored specifically to the needs of the L2 readers it is intended to support. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01