Design of a Web-Based Sentence Analysis System to Support EFL Reading Instruction

Yea-Ru Tsai and Yukon Chang
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Yea-Ru Tsai: I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Yukon Chang: I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design (IJOPCD), 2015, vol. 5, issue 2, 11-22

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of an on-line Cumulative Sentence Analysis (CSA) instruction on university engineering students' English reading comprehension. Within the framework of CSA instruction, the reading comprehension process can be divided into six steps: identifying finite verbs, finding key words, separating clauses, identifying subjects and main verbs, adding words stepwise, and translating the sentence. The results showed that the experimental group achieved a higher level of reading comprehension performance following the instruction. Inter-group comparison also revealed that the experimental group significantly outperformed the control group in the post-test, while no difference was found between these groups in the pretest. The findings clearly demonstrated that on-line CSA instruction is an efficient and feasible approach to helping engineering students cope with their problems of reading English texts.

Date: 2015
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