Abstract
The Chinese language has become an increasingly important Asian language for American students and more and more of them have a desire to learn it. The problems and the difficulties that Chinese foreign language (CFL) learners have when they try to use their knowledge of new vocabulary in reading comprehension are apparent. Previous studies have described some aspects that may influence reading comprehension and have indicated that Chinese is a relatively difficult language for native speakers of American English, but there are few studies that have focused on improving CFL learners' Chinese reading comprehension. This study investigates the effect of pre-learning vocabulary and contextualized word learning strategies on Chinese reading comprehension. The purpose of this study is to examine whether pre-learning vocabulary and contextualized word learning positively affect CFL learners' reading comprehension. The results show that pre-learning vocabulary does not have a positive effect on Chinese reading comprehension and that although contextualized word learning positively affects CFL learners' reading comprehension the effect is not significant. This study also gives relative analysis.
Degree
MA
College and Department
Humanities; Center for Language Studies
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BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Jia, Hongyi, "Identifying How Successful Vocabulary-Learning Strategies Affect Reading Comprehension among Intermediate Learners of Mandarin Chinese" (2011). Theses and Dissertations. 2820.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2820
Date Submitted
2011-07-14
Document Type
Thesis
Handle
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd4681
Keywords
reading comprehension, Chinese foreign language (CFL) learners, word learning strategy, contextualized word learning, pre-learning, and word list learning
Language
English