Effects of Situational Continuity on Reading Time of Japanese EFL Learners

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概要

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• The aim of this study is to explore whether situational continuity influences EFL learners' reading processes. Continuity is regarded as one of the most important factors in reading because it determines readers' construction processes of mental representation, especially integration processes. For successful reading, learners have to appropriately integrate information obtained from reading into the preceding mental representation. A total of 39 Japanese university students took part in this study. They were divided into two groups based on the results of a reading proficiency test. They read narratives clause by clause, and their reading times were recorded. The analysis showed that information with high situational continuity was read more quickly than information with low situational continuity, which indicated that the former was integrated into mental representations more easily than the latter.

• 2011-03-01

著者

• Takaki Shuichi

  Graduate School University Of Tsukuba

関連論文

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