The Effects of Reading with Narrative Text and Expository Text on the Writing in EFL Context.

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 5-24
Author(s):  
Kyu-cheol Shin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Expository Text ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Efl Context

scholarly journals How does gender impact the relationship between reading fluency and reading comprehension?Akıcı okuma ve okuduğunu anlama arasındaki ilişkilerde cinsiyet nasıl bir rol oynamaktadır?

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 931
Author(s):  
Dudu Kaya ◽  
Kasım Yıldırım
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Expository Text ◽  
English Summary ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Gender Impacts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Comprehension Tests

This research aimed to explore how gender impacts the relationship between reading fluency and reading comprehension. The research sample conssits of a tatol of 100 seventh gaders. In order to assess the students’ reading comprehension and reading fluency levels, an expository and a narrative text were used. For the implemetantons, each student was asked to read orally the expository text and anwered the comprehension questions related to texts. The same procedure was used for the narrative teaxt reading. The comprehension tests were the researcher-develped. The recorded oral readings were scored according to reading fluency components including word recognition automaticity and prosody by the researchers.  In the comprehension tests were focues on deep and literal comprehension levels of the students. The research findings indicated that there were statistically significant relations between reading comprehension and reading fluency. However, the gender of the students did not affect the significant differences between reading fleuncy and reading comprehension. Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file.  ÖzetBu araştırmada öğrencilerin akıcı okuma ve okuduğunu anlama düzeyleri arasındaki ilişkilerin cinsiyete göre değişip değişmediği incelenmiştir. Araştırmanın çalışma grubunu Denizli il merkezindeki farklı okullarda öğrenim göre 7. sınıflardaki 100 öğrenci oluşturmaktadır. Öğrencilerin akıcı okuma ve okuduğunu anlamalarının belirlenmesinde sınıf seviyelerine uygun hikâye edici ve bilgi verici metinler kullanılmıştır. Uygulamalarda her öğrenciye önce hikâye edici metin sesli olarak okutulmuş ve kaydedilmiş sonra metinle ilgili sorular verilerek cevaplaması istenmiştir. Aynı işlemler aynı öğrenciler ile bilgi verici metin üzerinde de gerçekleştirilmiştir. Okuduğunu anlamayı basit ve derinlemesine anlama boyutlarında ölçen sorulardan oluşan test araştırmacılar tarafından geliştirilmiştir. Kaydedilen sesli okumalar akıcı okuma bileşenlerine göre analiz edilerek puanlama yapılmıştır. Puanlamada okuma hızı ve prozodik okuma olmak üzere üç farklı bileşen değerlendirilmiştir. Okuduğunu anlama testi basit anlama ve derinlemesine anlama puanı olarak puanlanmıştır. Yapılan analizlerden elde edilen bulgulara göre hem kız hem erkek öğrencilerde akıcı okuma ile okuduğunu anlama arasında anlamlı ve olumlu ilişkiler bulunmaktadır. Ancak bu ilişki cinsiyet bağlamında farklılık göstermemektedir. Elde edilen bu sonuçlar ilgili bilimsel literatür bağlamında tartışılmış ve gerekli önerilerde bulunulmuştur.

Examining EFL learners’ source text use in summary writing

2021 ◽  
pp. 136216882110558
Author(s):  
Jiuliang Li
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Expository Text ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Summary Writing ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Source Use

To avoid plagiarism, students have to learn the appropriate and effective ways of source text use, such as paraphrasing, summarizing, and citation. However, few studies have investigated how learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) employ copy and paraphrase as source text use strategies in completing writing tasks involving reading material, and how characteristics of the reading material, such as genre, affect such use. This article reports an empirical study that attempted to address the issue. Eighty students from an undergraduate program of a Chinese university wrote summaries for a narrative text and an expository text. Their drafts and the source texts are compared to identify instances of retention of strings of words from sources. Analysis of the summary scripts showed that participants heavily relied on the source texts when writing summaries. The expository text elicited a larger proportion of words than the narrative text in total text borrowed, and the former also led the participants to stronger reliance on its surface structure than the latter. The less proficient group used Exact Copy more but Paraphrase less than the more proficient group. Higher level of source use – Major Paraphrase and Maximal Paraphrase – seems to be immune to changes in terms of genre of source text and language proficiency. Implications of these findings are discussed with reference to the teaching, learning, and assessing appropriate source text use of university level EFL learners.

Read, Understand, Learn, & Excel: Development and Testing of an Automated Reading Strategy Detection Algorithm for Postsecondary Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1257-1267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priya Kucheria ◽  
McKay Moore Sohlberg ◽  
Jason Prideaux ◽  
Stephen Fickas
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Expository Text ◽  
Reading Strategy ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Expository Texts ◽  
Human Observer ◽  
Behavioral Strategies ◽  
Periodic Review ◽  
Wide Range

PurposeAn important predictor of postsecondary academic success is an individual's reading comprehension skills. Postsecondary readers apply a wide range of behavioral strategies to process text for learning purposes. Currently, no tools exist to detect a reader's use of strategies. The primary aim of this study was to develop Read, Understand, Learn, & Excel, an automated tool designed to detect reading strategy use and explore its accuracy in detecting strategies when students read digital, expository text.MethodAn iterative design was used to develop the computer algorithm for detecting 9 reading strategies. Twelve undergraduate students read 2 expository texts that were equated for length and complexity. A human observer documented the strategies employed by each reader, whereas the computer used digital sequences to detect the same strategies. Data were then coded and analyzed to determine agreement between the 2 sources of strategy detection (i.e., the computer and the observer).ResultsAgreement between the computer- and human-coded strategies was 75% or higher for 6 out of the 9 strategies. Only 3 out of the 9 strategies–previewing content, evaluating amount of remaining text, and periodic review and/or iterative summarizing–had less than 60% agreement.ConclusionRead, Understand, Learn, & Excel provides proof of concept that a reader's approach to engaging with academic text can be objectively and automatically captured. Clinical implications and suggestions to improve the sensitivity of the code are discussed.Supplemental Materialhttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.8204786

Text Comprehension: Graphic Organizers to the Rescue

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 82-89
Author(s):  
Janet L. Proly ◽  
Jessica Rivers ◽  
Jamie Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Text Comprehension ◽  
Graphic Organizers ◽  
Expository Text ◽  
Supporting Evidence

Abstract Graphic organizers are a research based strategy used for facilitating the reading comprehension of expository text. This strategy will be defined and the evolution and supporting evidence for the use of graphic organizers will be discussed. Various types of graphic organizers and resources for SLPs and other educators will also be discussed.

Preverbation and narrativity in Lithuanian. The distribution of finite simplex and compound verbs in narrative main clauses

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 167-192
Author(s):  
Lea Sawicki
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Text ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
The Past ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
Compound Verbs ◽  
Finite Verb

The article deals with the use of simplex and compound (prefixed) verbs in narrative text. Main clauses comprising finite verb forms in the past and in the past habitual tense are examined in an attempt to establish to what extent simplex and compound verbs exhibit aspect oppositions, and whether a correlation exists between the occurrence of simplex vs. compound verbs and distinct textual units. The investigation shows that although simple and compound verbs in Lithuanian are not in direct aspect opposition to each other, in the background text portions most of the verbs are prefixless past tense forms or habitual forms, whereas in the plot-advancing text portions, the vast majority of verbs are compound verbs in the simple past tense.  

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