Intercultural rhetoric and reading comprehension in a second language

Intercultural rhetoric and reading comprehension in a second language

• Sharp, Alastair English Dept, Lingnan University (Hong Kong, China)

Reading Psychology, 31(5), 472-491, 2010

Routledge

2010

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GB English Language
    • GBD Teaching Methods of Reading Comprehension & Their Outcomes, Vocabulary Teaching
• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GB English Language
    • GBF Teaching Methods of Grammar & Rhetoric & Their Outcomes

Intercultural Communication Reading Second Language Acquisition Cross-Cultural Differences Reading Comprehension Psychological Aspects China

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

Intercultural rhetoric has been studied in the context of second language writing for many decades. This article looks at the topic from a new perspective and offers an experimental study of the effects of intercultural rhetoric on reading comprehension. The experiment was set in Hong Kong, China, and assessed the reading comprehension (using a rational cloze design and quantitative and qualitative recall protocols) of 490 school students who were presented with four rhetorically different texts. Results suggest that the rhetoric of the students' first language (Chinese) had clear effects on reading comprehension.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02702710903054949]

• English

Journal Articles

• 02702711

• 10.1080/02702710903054949

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/49e1c7fb

2011-01-20