Description

• Title:
  The relationship between syntactic knowledge and reading comprehension in EFL learners
• Creator:
  Morvay, Gabriella
• Description:
  Via a variety of measurements, 64 Hungarian native speakers in the 12th grade learning English as a foreign language in Slovakia were tested in a cross-sectional correlational study in order to determine the relationship between the ability to process complex syntax and foreign language reading comprehension. The test instruments involved a standardized reading comprehension test in English, and a test of syntactic knowledge in both Hungarian and English, in addition to a background questionnaire in Hungarian. Power correlations and regression analyses rendered results that showed syntactic knowledge to be a statistically significant estimator for foreign language reading comprehension. The study provides evidence that the ability to process complex syntactic structures in a foreign language does contribute to one’s efficient reading comprehension in that language.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2016 Gabriella Morvay
• Date:
  2012.10.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English;
  eng
• Source:
  Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching; Vol. 2 No. 3 (2012); 415-438;
  Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching; Tom 2 Nr 3 (2012); 415-438;
  2084-1965;
  2083-5205
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt/article/view/5125/5356
• Subject:
  syntactic knowledge;
  nonnative reading comprehension
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt/article/view/5125
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text