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Elaborative feedback to enhance online second language reading comprehension
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Bown, A, Elaborative feedback to enhance online second language reading comprehension, English Language Teaching, 10, (12) pp. 164-171. ISSN 1916-4742 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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Official URL: http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/elt/issue...
DOI: doi:10.5539/elt.v10n12p164
Abstract
Many higher education students across the world are studying in situations where a high proportion of the academic materials they encounter are online reading texts written in their second language. While the online medium presents a number of challenges to L2 readers, it also enables the provision of a range of support mechanisms, such as instant feedback. This quasi-experimental study investigated the use of two types of feedback, elaborative and knowledge of response, and compares their effectiveness for enhancing online second language reading comprehension. The participants were 113 Emirati students of L2 English at a higher education college in the United Arab Emirates. Data were collected using a pre-test and a post-test measure of reading comprehension and an online reading comprehension exercise containing either elaborative or knowledge of response feedback. The results of the quasi-experiment showed no significant difference between the effects of the two feedback types on comprehension of an online reading text for the sample as a whole. Equally, for the high-proficiency readers, feedback type had no significant effect on text comprehension. However, with regard to the low-proficiency readers, those receiving elaborative feedback performed significantly better on the post-test than those who received knowledge of response feedback. The findings suggest that elaborative feedback can enhance online L2 reading comprehension but that it needs to be tailored specifically to the needs of the L2 readers it is intended to support.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | online reading, second language reading, computer-assisted language learning, elaborative feedback, sociocultural theory |
| Research Division: | Language, Communication and Culture |
| Research Group: | Linguistics |
| Research Field: | Applied linguistics and educational linguistics |
| Objective Division: | Education and Training |
| Objective Group: | Other education and training |
| Objective Field: | Other education and training not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Bown, A (Dr Andy Bown) |
| ID Code: | 122341 |
| Year Published: | 2017 |
| Deposited By: | Education |
| Deposited On: | 2017-11-09 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-06-21 |
| Downloads: | 124 View Download Statistics |
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