The relationship between syntactic knowledge and reading comprehension in EFL learners
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2012
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Zakład Filologii Angielskiej Wydział Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Kaliszu
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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.
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syntactic knowledge, nonnative reading comprehension
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Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 415-438.