Date:
November 1992
Page No.:
127
Writer(s):
Akemi Nagasaka, Keisen Jogakuen Junior College
This study examines the use of text structure by Japanese college-level
students in reading expository prose in their native language and in a foreign
language, English. The top-level text structure as well as the content units of
the students' recall protocols were analyzed to see how they use text structure
strategy, and how much of the textual information they understand and
remember. Most of the students possessed the structure strategy and utilized
it in L 1 reading, but more than half of them could not use it in FL reading. The
use of structure strategy and its effects on comprehension and recall in different
languages are discussed, and suggestions for FL reading are offered.
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