標題: A think-aloud study of strategy use by EFL college readers reading Chinese and English texts
作者: Lin, Lu-Chun
Yu, Wan-Yu
英語教學研究所
Institute of Teaching English to speakers of other Languages
公開日期: 1-八月-2015
摘要: This study used a think-aloud approach to compare reading strategy use in the first language (L1) and non-native language (L2) among 36 English as a foreign language (EFL) college students at different reading levels. The participants took an English proficiency test and participated in two individual sessions in which a reading test and a think-aloud task were administered separately in Chinese and English. Cross-language transfer theory and the linguistic threshold hypothesis were used to conceptualise the similarities and differences in L1 and L2 reading strategies. This study found more frequent and diverse strategy use in English than in Chinese. Similar patterns of meta-cognitive strategy use were evident in both languages. The applications of certain meta-cognitive and support strategies served as indicators that differentiated more-proficient from less-proficient readers. The present study extended previous questionnaire studies and suggested that English reading instruction should be informed by this line of research to provide instruction on effective reading strategy use for EFL learners.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9817.12012
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/127958
ISSN: 0141-0423
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9817.12012
期刊: JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN READING
Volume: 38
起始頁: 286
結束頁: 306
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