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Title: It's All About Strategy Choices When Three EFL Undergraduates Read Two Scientific Texts
Other Titles: A Qualitative Insight
Authors: Samsiah, Abdul Hamid
Keywords: Cognitive and metacognitive strategies
EFL learners
Scientific texts
Second language reading
Think aloud protocol
Issue Date: 2016
Publisher: Social Sciences (Pakistan)
Citation: Vol.11; Issue 4; 5913-5918 p.
Abstract: This is a qualitative study that looks into theinterplay of crucial variables in the successful comprehension of two scientific texts of different topic familiarity and syntactic difficulty. Respondents were three EFL undergraduates with some prior knowledge on the two scientific texts but different levels of English proficiency. The aim was to see how they negotiate the two texts given their current level of English proficiency and prior knowledge. For this purpose, think aloud protocols and structured interviews were conducted to determine their strategy choices. The study shows that even though L2 proficiency and prior knowledge of the science topic are important contributors, strategy choices are instrumental to successful comprehension. While lower cognitive strategies are used to get the meaning from the written texts, it is crucial to use higher cognitive strategies to complete the understanding.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/5967
ISSN: 1818 5800
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