The Effects of Syntactic Awareness to L2 Chinese Passage-Level Reading Comprehension.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated the association between syntactic awareness and L2 Chinese passage-level reading comprehension among 209 Chinese as a second language adult-learners. The participants were administered a character knowledge test, a vocabulary knowledge test, a morphological awareness test, a grammatical judgment and correction test, a word order test, and two reading comprehension tests (multiple-choice questions and cloze test). Partial correlation analyses showed that the participants' performance in two syntactic awareness tasks were significantly positively correlated with their passage-level reading comprehension. Multiple regression analyses revealed that syntactic awareness made a unique contribution to L2 Chinese reading even when the effects of age, major, gender, length of

SUBMITTER: Zhou J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8844565 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature