Cultural content and reading proficiency: A comparison of Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong learners of English

Cultural content and reading proficiency: A comparison of Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong learners of English

• Chan, Cecilia Yuet Hung Dept. of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong

Language, Culture and Curriculum, 16(1), 60-69, 2003

Routledge

2003

• G 課程與教學:個別教學範疇
  • GB 英文
    • GBD 閱讀理解之教學方法效果、字彙教學
• P 香港教育各層面與外地之比較
  • PB 香港教育各層面與外地之比較
• A 人的成長與發展
  • AE 社會經濟差異、文化差異、階級和家庭背景

College Students Comparative Analysis Cultural Context Higher Education Language Proficiency Prior Learning Reading Comprehension Second Language Instruction Second Language Learning China Hong Kong

• Hong Kong
• China

• 1997.7 onwards

• 專上教育

This study looks closely at the relation between background knowledge and L2 proficiency in L2 reading performance in two groups of university learners of English, one from Mainland China and one from Hong Kong. The students (n = 214) shared Chinese culture in general, but differed in terms of their local sub-cultural and social background. They were divided into intermediate and post-intermediate groups on the basis of a test of General Proficiency in English. Two English cloze tests were then constructed to assess reading comprehension, one with cultural content that would have been familiar to the Hong Kong students, and one that was culture free. The results show a strong cultural effect on reading comprehension, but not on post-intermediate readers. The findings have implications for teaching reading to L2 learners.
[Copyright of Language, Culture and Curriculum is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07908310308666657]

• 英文

期刊論文

• 07908318

• 10.1080/07908310308666657

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/89ac6317

2010-09-08