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A Study on Taiwanese College Students’ Use of Global Reading Strategies in Different Discourse Types
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Lei, Jiun-Iung |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | This study is intended as an investigation of the influence of two western expository structures, namely collection and problem/solution, on the reading strategies used by Taiwanese English L2 speakers during real-time reading. After the administration of an intermediate-level reading proficiency test to a sample of 479 students, 280 intermediate L2 English readers were selected from four colleges in Taiwan. The 280 intermediate-level participants selected were given a passage to read. The participants were grouped by the two discourse types. The participants at two of the Taiwanese colleges read a passage written in the collection structure, and those at the other two colleges were instructed to read a passage containing the same information, but organized in the 'problem/solution' structure. After reading, the participants filled in a reading strategy survey based on their reading of the passage. They also took a reading comprehension test based on the passage they had read. Both descriptive and inferential statistical analyses such as t-tests were applied to the results, to examine whether there were significant differences in the participants' choice of reading strategies when they read the two types of reading passage. The t-test result showed that there were significant differences between the two discourse types, problem-solving and collection, in the participants' use of global reading strategies (p<.01). |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://cgjhsc.cgu.edu.tw/data_files/CGJ9-2-05.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
