Exploring content schemata influence on L2 reading: The Hunted Fox and Twelve and Not Stupid
This paper will discuss the aspects of content schemata in second language reading among diploma level students who were taking a reading course in Universiti Teknologi MARA Perlis.In this qualitative case study, the researcher had selected two short stories that are categorized as content-familiar...
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my.uum.repo.223982017-06-13T00:23:15Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/22398/ Exploring content schemata influence on L2 reading: The Hunted Fox and Twelve and Not Stupid Mohd Radzi, Amizura Hanadi Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima P Philology. Linguistics This paper will discuss the aspects of content schemata in second language reading among diploma level students who were taking a reading course in Universiti Teknologi MARA Perlis.In this qualitative case study, the researcher had selected two short stories that are categorized as content-familiar texts, i.e.The Hunted Fox and Twelve and Not Stupid.Six participants were asked to write a 150-word entry response on the short story and a grading criteria was used to assess the participants’ level of comprehension.An in-depth interview was also conducted on each participant.The entry responses and the interview patterns were analyzed to determine whether content schemata had contributed to the learners’ understanding of the text.This study discovered that content schemata had contributed to the learners’ understanding of the text because the learners’ comprehension was facilitated by their background knowledge on the content-familiar texts Australian International Academic Centre, Australia 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc4_by http://repo.uum.edu.my/22398/1/ALLS%205%205%202014%20169%20180.pdf Mohd Radzi, Amizura Hanadi and Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima (2014) Exploring content schemata influence on L2 reading: The Hunted Fox and Twelve and Not Stupid. Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 5 (5). pp. 169-180. ISSN 2203-4714 http://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.5n.5p.169 doi:10.7575/aiac.alls.v.5n.5p.169 |
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This paper will discuss the aspects of content schemata in second language reading among diploma level students who were taking a reading course in Universiti Teknologi MARA Perlis.In this qualitative case study, the researcher had selected two short stories that are categorized as content-familiar texts, i.e.The Hunted Fox and Twelve and Not Stupid.Six participants were asked to write a 150-word entry response on the short story and a grading criteria was used to assess the participants’ level of comprehension.An in-depth interview was also conducted on each participant.The entry responses and the interview patterns were analyzed to determine whether content schemata had contributed to the learners’ understanding of the text.This study discovered that content schemata had contributed to the learners’ understanding of the text because the learners’ comprehension was facilitated by their background knowledge on the
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