The Relationship between the Arrangement of Constituents and Reading Speed
|
| Title | The Relationship between the Arrangement of Constituents and Reading Speed |
| Authors | |
| Abstract | The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the arrangement of constituents and reading speed. This study answered this question: “does the arrangement of constituent affect reading speed?” The subjects of the study were 30 female EFL graduate students at Isfahan University. Two forms of a passage were used. One form (form A) with breaks between constituents and one intact form (form “I”). These forms were given to two homogenous groups. To achieve two homogenous groups, Oxford Placement Test 1B1 (Allan, 1985) was administered. Finally, the data of Placement test scores was analyzed through Mann-Whitney test. An Independent sample t-test was used to analyze the data of time of reading comprehension of the two groups. The results of t-test proved that there was significant difference (0.03) between the times of reading comprehension of the two groups. The subjects in the group (I) spent less time in accomplishing the test than that in another group. The main finding of the study was that arrangement of the sentences in a passage may affect reading speed. It was preplanned to write a program to design a type of software to record the exact time of the reading speed and answering the multiple-choice questions but because of lack of time, the participants used stop watches of their cell phones to measure spent time. |
| Publisher | ACADEMY PUBLISHER |
| Date | 2011-09-01 |
| Source | Theory and Practice in Language Studies Vol 1, No 9 (2011) |
| Rights | Copyright © ACADEMY PUBLISHER - All Rights Reserved.To request permission, please check out URL: http://www.academypublisher.com/copyrightpermission.html. |