EFL説明文読解における因果橋渡し推論生成の検証 : オンライン処理とオフライン処理をつなげて

• 細田 雅也

  Graduate School, Uniersity of Tsukuba

書誌事項

タイトル別名

• Generating Causal Bridging Inferences in EFL Expository Reading : Combining On-Line and Off-Line Processing

抄録

Although causal bridging inference generation has been evidenced to be instrumental in understanding and learning from expository texts, little research has been done with EFL readers. The present study therefore explored whether EFL readers generate causal bridging inferences from expository texts, focusing on two phases of inference processing: on-line and off-line. In the on-line phase, a total of 51 Japanese undergraduates read expository passages and answered verification questions. In the off-line phase, a sentence recognition task was used to evaluate off-line inference generation. The joint pattern of reading times for target sentences and response times for inference questions revealed that regardless of L2 reading proficiency, participants failed to make appropriate inferences during expository reading (i.e., on-line). However, the results of the sentence recognition task indicated that when required to engage in extended reflection after reading (i.e., on-line), participants did generate causal bridging inferences. In particular, high L2 proficiency readers showed more robust generation than low proficiency readers. Together, the on- and off-line findings emphasize the difficulty EFL learners have in making inferences from expository texts by themselves, and thereby highlight the importance of reflective tasks that elicit additional effort to make meaning from texts.

収録刊行物

• 全国英語教育学会紀要

  全国英語教育学会紀要 25 (0), 239-254, 2014

  全国英語教育学会

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001205822228352
• NII論文ID: 110009930605
• DOI: 10.20581/arele.25.0_239
• ISSN: 24320412
• ISSN: 13448560
• 本文言語コード: en
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