[PDF] Top 20 The Effects of Formal Schema on Reading Comprehension — An Experiment with Chinese EFL Readers

... of formal schema — comparison and contrast, along with problem-solution — have an additional link of relationship over the descriptive ...two formal schemata, which offer extra linkage, should be ... See full document

... discourse comprehension, listeners or readers may always encounter different genres with different characteristics (narration, description, problem-solution pattern, general-specific pattern, ...linguistic ... See full document

... among EFL readers have been conducted in many ...of EFL students and the result of the study showed that explicit metacognitive strategy training has a significant positive effect on the vocabulary ... See full document

... facilitates reading in L1-English readers of Chinese as a Second ...L2 readers’ reading rate by 8%, compared with non-word- spaced texts, with increases as high as ...learners ... See full document

... Grabe (1991) argues that "the notion of schemata remains a useful metaphoric explanation for many experimental results" (p. 384). Similarly, Carrell and Eisterhold (1983, p. 559) note, "what is understood ... See full document

... promote reading speed or not? As we already know, reading in English is a slow, yet long-term process for ESL and EFL ...slow readers. It is suggested that, participants can increase their ... See full document

... beginning readers may understand text best when it is read by others. Oral reading then appears to become the better mode for comprehension and may continue as such into the latter half of elementary ... See full document

... vocabulary readers than high vocabulary readers; besides, reduced constraints were detrimental for low but not for high vocabulary ...of readers level of proficiency when proceeding the instructin of ... See full document

... of readers in the analysis, it was found that reading comprehension and reading fluency were significantly negatively correlated (See Table ...picture readers in the ...Picture ... See full document

... Aprilia (2015) investigates the effect of POSSE strategy on improving students reading comprehension. The participants were from eighth grade. Pre and post test were used to collect the data of the study. ... See full document

... all the reasons. Forty-eight percent (20/42) of the students reported that the C-DA format, especially the time reminder showing how much time left for each item, can help them better concentrate on the test and increase ... See full document

... and reading comprehension, and reading is considered vital to all core areas, emotional intelligence skills must be integrated into the overall school ...skills, reading comprehension ... See full document

... difficulties EFL learners face in vocabulary learning is the problem of vocabulary retention in which vocabularies are mainly forgotten in the first hours or days since learning or memorizing ...relative ... See full document

... while reading draws significantly on their understanding of the structural aspects of words (Scott and Nagy, ...in reading are morphological outcomes of known words. Readers who have good command of ... See full document

... group's reading performance at the time of post-test confirms the findings of previous researches which demonstrated that explicit reading strategy instruction leads to better performance (Anderson, 2005; ... See full document

... terms, reading comprehension is the ability to read, understand, process, and recall what was just read ...their comprehension would be enhanced ... See full document

... Extensive Reading (EPER) contains approximately 550 titles published for a world market, coded after the title with a clear genre or subject like adventure, animal, fantasy, horror, humor and romance (Hill ... See full document

... adequate reading skills who were regarded to be good ...the reading fluency levels of the ...identified reading errors on a consensus ...conducted reading comprehension ... See full document

... of reading process are structural and vocabulary knowledge. That is, readers with less command of such areas of knowledge will get into trouble processing written ...fluent reading skills in the ... See full document

... Although the majority of students fall with low scores, the experimental group performed significantly better scores than the control group on reading comprehension posttest. As indicated in Table 4, ... See full document