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英语阅读情况调查. 第一组 娄辛悦 徐宏亮 胡玉伟 王丽娟. Research Topic 阅读策略使用与英语阅读成绩的相关性研究 Research Instruments 1. A reading comprehension test 2. A questionnaire. Questionnaire. Sources of the theoretical framework 1. Insights from Andrew Cohen’s SBI materials 2. Insights from Prof Wen’s lectures and books
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英语阅读情况调查 第一组 娄辛悦 徐宏亮 胡玉伟 王丽娟
Research Topic • 阅读策略使用与英语阅读成绩的相关性研究 • Research Instruments • 1. A reading comprehension test • 2. A questionnaire
Questionnaire • Sources of the theoretical framework • 1. Insights from Andrew Cohen’s SBI materials • 2. Insights from Prof Wen’s lectures and books • 3. Insights from reflections of our own teaching experience
Variable • Strategy for English Reading • Types of respondents • Sophomore non-English majors
Conceptual definition • Strategies: Actions taken to facilitate the accomplishment of language learning tasks (Rubin’s definition) • Operational definition • English reading strategies: Actions taken to facilitate the accomplishment of English reading.
Categories Word attack strategies Form-focused word formation Meaning-focused Guessing the meaning of unknown words Looking up in the dictionaries Giving up
Sentence-focused strategies • Form-focused • Analyzing the sentence structures • Meaning-focused • Ignoring the sentence structure
Discourse-based strategies • Predicting • Getting main ideas • Getting the deeper meanings
Items in questionnaire • I. Word attack strategies • 1. I turn to dictionaries when coming across new words in the English reading. • 2. I guess the meanings of new words in context when reading in English. • 3. When I read English articles, I skip the words that are new to me. • 4. I guess the meaning of new words by analyzing their roots or prefixes or suffixes. • 5. I use simple words to replace difficult ones in sentence understanding.
II. Sentence-focused strategies • 6. I pause and analyze the structure of sentences when reading in English. • 7. I do not bother with the grammatical structure of sentences while reading in English. • 8. I ignore the sentences with complicated structures. • 9. I try to grasp the general idea of a sentence before going to read the next sentence. • 10. I try to understand complicated sentences by analyzing their structure.
III. Discourse-based strategies • 11. I predict the main idea of the whole passage from its title or subtitles. • 12. I predict the main idea of the whole passage from key words. • 13. I grasp the main idea of the material while reading English. • 14. I try to guess the main ideas of the text on the basis of pictures, charts or figures.
III. Discourse-based strategies • 15. I grasp the gist of the reading material through quickly reading the first and the last paragraphs. • 16. I try to interpret the writer’s intention while reading in English. • 17. I do not pay attention to the implied meaning of the reading material.
Types of information we would like to obtain: • Factual questions: gender, name, major • Behavior questions: actions (strategies students use in English reading) • Types of scaling techniques we would like to employ: • Frequency scale • We would like to ask the respondents to respond on the 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (never or almost never true of me) to 5 (completely or almost completely true of me).
