Seventh-grade students' awareness of text structures
| Autor: | Shi-Ting Huang, 黃詩婷 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 105 Expository passages has been widely used in junior high school text book. However, many students have encountered difficulty while reading expository texts. Past studies had indicated that readers who are sensitive to text structure had better reading comprehension of expository text. Thus, the purpose of this study was examine seventh-grade students’ awareness of two expository passages text structure (comparison/contrast and cause/effect relation) and their recall of texts written in those structures. The participants included 119 seventh-grade students, and they were grouped into high- and low-ability groups, based on their performance on reading comprehension test. The analyses revealed significant main effects for ability and text type, and results indicated that: (1) The data was analyzed to determine whether signal words were used in the written recall resembled the passage’s structure, and shows that students performed significantly better in comparison/contrast than cause/effect text structure. (2) On the comprehension performance in written recall, students performed significantly better in comparison/contrast than cause/effect text structure. (3) High-ability students significantly outperformed low-ability students in comparison/contrast text structure, but not in cause/effect text structure. |
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