Strategic Processing and Reading Comprehension: Contributions for the ESP Teaching
The objective of the study was to verify reading comprehension in English and strategic processing among 13 graduate students in health-related courses. Multiple-choice cloze test and reading protocols were used for data collection. The main results indicated that the greatest difficulties among low...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2014-11-01
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| Series: | The ESPecialist: Research in Language for Specific Purposes |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/21315 |
| Summary: | The objective of the study was to verify reading comprehension in English and strategic processing among 13 graduate students in health-related courses. Multiple-choice cloze test and reading protocols were used for data collection. The main results indicated that the greatest difficulties among low proficiency students are related to lexical-syntactic aspects of the text, together with insufficient and unproductive uses of cognitive and metacognitive reading strategies. The data obtained can contribute for the teaching of reading in English for specific purposes. |
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| ISSN: | 0102-7077 2318-7115 |