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Reading English Rates across Cultures : Differences according to L1, Gender, and Age
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Kawachi, Paul |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | English-language-medium global distance education courses rely mainly on the student reading and writing text. The present study was designed to investigate the variance in reading rates according to the reader’s firstlanguage L1 and culture, gender, and age (over the range from 19 to 81 years old). About 850 persons were examined. Their various reading rates were compared between on-line (on a computer screen) and off-line (from a standard text-book). To accommodate the cultural and the gender differences in reading rates, implications and suggestions are given to improve both the on-line and off-line course design for lifelong learners. These include increasing the transactions with each reader’s context through mathemagenic questions and activities, reducing the difficulty-level and content density and replace with some hypertext links to more examples/narratives on the one hand and other links to critical reasoning on the other hand, and choice in recommended books, to promote student autonomy, while increasing the complexity through tutor feedback and initiating the intrinsic motivations to learn. Wider implications include the correlation that slow readers were also slow writers. Further studies are proposed. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.open-ed.net/library/R3011.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
