Journal Articles
Chinese L1 schoolchildren reading in English: The effects of rhetorical patterns
- Chinese L1 schoolchildren reading in English: The effects of rhetorical patterns
- Reading in a Foreign Language, 14(2), 2002
- Meena Singhal & John I. Liontas
- 2002
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Secondary Education
- Reading comprehension can be seen as a process dependent on the interaction of 'topdown' and 'bottom-up' processes. An important, but neglected, feature of this process concerns the effects of rhetorical organization. This article describes an experiment in which four rhetorically different texts, with identical subject matter, were read by 490 Hong Kong Chinese school children (mean age 14.1), studying in English (their L2). Comprehension was measured by a cloze procedure and by recall protocols. One way ANOVA was used to investigate the effects of different texts on the test scores. The results showed a clear difference in comprehension between the text types and suggest that pedagogical support to increase awareness of rhetorical patterns would be beneficial.[Copyright of Reading in a Foreign Language is the property of Meena Singhal & John I. Liontas.Access via Directory of Open Access Journals: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 02642425
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/6f00f88a
- 2010-11-24
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