scholarly journals Experimental Research on English Reading Behavior Based on E-Prime System

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhu Feng
Keyword(s):  
Reading Time ◽  
Reading Speed ◽  
Generation System ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Detection Technology ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
Prime System ◽  
Adverbial Clauses ◽  
Reading Teaching

Guided by the framework of structural construction and based on the E-Prime experimental generation system, the reading time method and detection technology are used to investigate the differences of reading comprehension between conditional adverbial clauses which presented by two ways — preposition and postposition among native Chinese college students. It is found that there are significant differences in reading time and understanding between the preposition and postposition of conditional adverbial clauses in English reading. The results show that both at the sentence level and at the text level, the postposition structure is more difficult to characterize than the preposition structure, which affects the reading speed and the accuracy of understanding. The study aims to improve English reading teaching.

scholarly journals The Application of Activity-based Method in English Reading Teaching in Senior High School

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Xuejuan Duan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
High School English ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
Modern Information Technology ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
The Times ◽  
Reading Teaching

Activity-based method in English reading teaching in senior high school is put forward in the new National English Curriculum Standards for Senior High School (NECS). With the development of the times, the demand for hundreds of thousands of senior high school English teachers is changing, because educators stress a great attention to the application of the modern information technology and activity-based method. Therefore, around how to apply English activity-based method in the reading teaching in high school, this paper designs three learning activities to address the problems of the traditional teacher-centered teaching and the knowledge-orientated leaning. The result of this study can penetrate the consciousness of practical meaning into the frontline teachers by fully understanding the new conception and implementing it based on their own teaching needs.

scholarly journals Reading for Meaning: What Influences Paragraph Understanding in Aphasia?

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1S) ◽  
pp. 423-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Webster ◽  
Julie Morris ◽  
David Howard ◽  
Maria Garraffa
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Matched Control ◽  
Reading Speed ◽  
Reading Difficulties ◽  
Propositional Content ◽  
Reading Impairment ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
Comprehension Accuracy

Purpose The current study investigated the effect of text variables including length, readability, propositional content, and type of information on the reading comprehension of people with aphasia. Method The performance of 75 people with aphasia was compared with 87 healthy, age-matched control participants. Reading comprehension was considered in terms of both accuracy in responding to questions tapping comprehension and reading time. Participants with aphasia (PWA) were divided into 2 groups (no reading impairment [PWA:NRI] and reading impairment [PWA:RI]) depending on whether their performance fell within the 5th percentile of control participants. Results As groups, both PWA:NRI and PWA:RI differed significantly from control participants in terms of reading time and comprehension accuracy. PWA:NRI and PWA:RI differed from each other in terms of accuracy but not reading time. There was no significant effect of readability or propositional density on comprehension accuracy or reading time for any of the groups. There was a significant effect of length on reading time but not on comprehension accuracy. All groups found main ideas easier than details, stated information easier than inferred, and had particular difficulty with questions that required integration of information across paragraphs (gist). Conclusions Both accuracy of comprehension and reading speed need to be considered when characterizing reading difficulties in people with aphasia.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study of Application of Multimodal Approach to Teaching Reading in EFL in Senior High School

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Xuequan Pan ◽  
Zhixin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Reading Proficiency ◽  
Teaching Experiment ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Teaching Approach ◽  
School Students ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Reading Teaching

English Reading skill is one of the most important skills for senior high school students who learn English as a foreign language (EFL). However, the present ELF teaching method is still teacher-centered which neglects students’ learning interest and their participation in the process of teaching. In 1990s, Western scholars proposed multi-modal theory which suggests that semiotic resources (sound, images, video, animation, motion, color, facial expressions, etc.) can be used to stimulate different senses of students so as to improve their learning efficiency. The present study is intended to apply the multi-modal approach to EFL reading teaching in senior high school and tries to find out whether the multimodal teaching can stimulate students’ interest in English reading and improve their reading proficiency. In this study, with students of a high school in Anhui in China as the research subjects, an English reading teaching experiment was carried out. The analysis of data collected from reading tests and questionnaires indicates that the application of multi-modal teaching approach in high school EFL reading teaching can stimulate students’ interest in English reading and improve students’ English reading proficiency, and that most students take a positive attitude towards multimodal teaching approach.

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