Reading comprehension component skills of Chinese-speaking ESL and EFL learners

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dc.contributor.authorKe, Sihui Echo
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-14T22:26:46Z
dc.date.available2022-10-14T22:26:46Z
dc.date.issued2022-10-15
dc.description.abstractThis research compared the contributions of lexical inferencing, decoding, and listening comprehension to reading comprehension in Chinese-speaking learners of English as a second language (ESL) enrolled in university bridging programs in the U.S. and Chinese-speaking university learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in mainland China. The findings suggested that the contributions of these three reading component skills differed in ESL and EFL contexts: In the ESL context, both second language (L2) lexical inferencing and L2 decoding were significant predictors of L2 reading comprehension, but L2 listening comprehension did not correlate with L2 reading comprehension. In the EFL context, L2 lexical inferencing was the only significant predictor of L2 reading comprehension. Thus, it appears that the Simple View Reading (decoding + listening comprehension = reading comprehension) is not applicable to Chinese-speaking adult learners of L2 English because learners in both ESL and EFL contexts rely on word-level reading subskills.
dc.identifier.citationKe, S. (2022). Reading comprehension component skills of Chinese-speaking ESL and EFL learners. Reading in a Foreign Language, 34(2), 306–324. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/67427
dc.identifier.issn1539-0578
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10125/67427
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.publisherCenter for Language & Technology
dc.subjectSimple View of Reading
dc.subjectChinese
dc.subjectEnglish
dc.subjectwriting system
dc.subjectcontext
dc.titleReading comprehension component skills of Chinese-speaking ESL and EFL learners
dc.typeArticle
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prism.endingpage324
prism.number2
prism.publicationnameReading in a Foreign Language
prism.startingpage306
prism.volume34

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