Sex Differences in Foreign Language Text Comprehension: The Role of Interests and Prior Knowledge  

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Buunk, Bram P. ; Bugel, Karin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Modern Language Journal (sebagian Full Text & ada di JSTOR) vol. 80 no. 1 (Jan. 1996), halaman 15-31.
Fulltext: Vol 80 no 1 pp.15-31.pdf (479,89KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/MLJ/80 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The scope obtained by female students on the national foreign language examinations in the Netherlands have been slightly but consistently lower than those or male students. The present research among 2980 high school students tasted th hypothesis that, owing to sex differences in prior knowledge and interests, the topic of a text is an important factor explaining these sex-based differences. To measure prior knowledge, the students' reading and TV habits, academic subject choice, self-reported knowledge, and interest concerning the text topics were assessed. A total of 11 different English reading passages including 5 texts with a "male" topic, and 6 texts with a "female" topic were selected. On all the male reading comprehension measures, and on five of the six female test, significant differences appeared to be largely due to sex differences in reading preference and the text comprehension score on related topics, this study suggests that differences between the sexes in prior knowledge contribute to sex differences in foreign langugae reading comprehension.

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