The Effects of Differences in Point of View on the Story Production of Japanese EFL Students  

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Kamimura, Taeko ; Oi, Kyoko

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Foreign Language Annals (Full Text; di PROQUEST 2004 - terbaru) vol. 34 no. 2 (2001), page 118-128.
Fulltext: 34_02_Kamimura.pdf (1.0MB)

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This study examines how differences in point of view influence the story production ofJapanese EFL students with differentdevels ofEnglish proficiency.Japanese college EFL students wrote two narrative stones based on the same series ofpictures, one in thefirst-person perspective and the other in the third-person perspective. The sample writings were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively in relation to the students’ levels of English proficiency. The results showed that when the perspective was shiftedfrom the first to the third person, the low-proficiency students’ writings became poorer in quantity and quality, whereas the high-proficiency students’ narratives exhibited no decrease in quantity and a slight decline in quality. On the other hand, when the perspective was switchedfrom the third to thefirst person, the students’ writings showed both quantitative and qualitative development, and this development was more clearly observed in the stories of those with high English proficiency.

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