Relationships between Chinese College Test Takers’ Strategy Use and EFL Reading Test Performance: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach  

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Zhang, Limei ; Zhang, Lawrence Jun

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: RELC Journal (sebagian Full Text) vol. 44 no. 1 (Apr. 2013), page 35-57.
Topik: Metacognitive strategy use; cognitive strategy use; EFL reading test performance; Chinese college students; structural equation modeling
Fulltext: Zhang_Limei.pdf (1.28MB)

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This article investigates the relationships between test takers’ strategy use and test performance on an EFL reading test. For this study 209 Chinese college students were invited to participate in a reading comprehension test and answer a 30-item strategy use questionnaire. Results showed that two factors underlay test takers’ reading test performance: lexico-grammatical reading ability (LEX-GR) and text comprehension reading ability (TxtCOM). In addition, metacognitive strategy use had a significant and direct effect on cognitive strategy use, implying that the former performed an executive function over the latter. Monitoring strategies were found to have a significant effect on LEX-GR and evaluating strategies significantly affected TxtCOM, suggesting that metacognitive strategy use played an important role on the reading test. Pedagogical implications are also discussed.

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