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Autor/in | Abbott, Marilyn L. |
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Titel | ESL Reading Strategies: Differences in Arabic and Mandarin Speaker Test Performance |
Quelle | In: Language Learning, 56 (2006) 4, S.633-670 (38 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0023-8333 |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2006.00391.x |
Schlagwörter | English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Reading Strategies; Individual Differences; Semitic Languages; Mandarin Chinese; Hypothesis Testing; Item Analysis |
Abstract | This study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that reading comprehension items, which elicit specific bottom-up and top-down strategies, favor certain linguistic/cultural groups. Verbal report data were collected from Arabic- and Mandarin-speaking English as a second language (ESL) learners to identify the reading strategies involved in carrying out 32 reading questions. Then a confirmatory approach to differential item functioning was used to determine whether bottom-up and top-down items functioned differentially for equal-ability Arabic and Mandarin ESL learners. Results revealed systematic group performance differences in four bottom-up and three top-down strategy categories. Items involving breaking a word into smaller parts, scanning, paraphrasing, and matching were found to favor Mandarin speakers, whereas items involving skimming, connecting, and inferring were found to favor Arabic speakers. (Author). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |