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The Effects of Cultural Familiarity on Reading Comprehension

Reading in a foreign language, 2009-04, Vol.21 (1), p.60-77 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright University of Hawaii, National Foreign Language Resource Center Apr 2009 ;ISSN: 1539-0578 ;EISSN: 1539-0578

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Title:
The Effects of Cultural Familiarity on Reading Comprehension
Author: Erten, ?smail Hakki ; Razi, Salim
Subjects: background knowledge ; Class Activities ; College Students ; Context Effect ; Cultural Awareness ; Cultural Context ; Cultural differences ; Cultural factors ; EFL ; English ; English (Second Language) ; Familiarity ; Foreign Countries ; Knowledge ; Language acquisition ; Linguistics ; Literary Genres ; Readers ; Reading Comprehension ; Reading Instruction ; Research design ; Schemata (Cognition) ; Second Language Instruction ; Second Language Learning ; Statistical Analysis ; student characteristics ; Students ; teaching and learning contexts ; teaching of language ; Text analysis ; Turkey
Is Part Of: Reading in a foreign language, 2009-04, Vol.21 (1), p.60-77
Description: This study investigated whether cultural familiarity influences comprehension of short stories and whether nativizing the story or using reading activities can compensate for the lack of such familiarity. The study was conducted with 44 advanced-level students of English at a state university in Turkey. In a 2 × 2 experimental research design, the 1st group of students read an original short story without any activities while the 2nd group of students read the original short story with some activities. The 3rd group read the nativized version of the text without any activities while the 4th group read the nativized version with the same set of activities as the 2nd group. The analysis of variance indicated a better comprehension of the nativized story. The activities contributed to the comprehension of the original story, but the difference caused by nativization remained intact, indicating a powerful impact of cultural schema on comprehension.
Publisher: Honolulu: University of Hawaii, National Foreign Language Resource Center
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1539-0578
EISSN: 1539-0578
Source: ERIC Full Text Only (Discovery)
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The Effects of Cultural Familiarity on Reading Comprehension

Copyright University of Hawaii, National Foreign Language Resource Center Apr 2009 ;ISSN: 1539-0578 ;EISSN: 1539-0578

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