College of Teacher Education, Taishan University, Shandong, 271000, China.
University of Applied Science and Technology (UAST), Khuzestan, Iran.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2022 Aug;51(4):707-727. doi: 10.1007/s10936-021-09823-x. Epub 2021 Nov 22.
Developing English reading fluency (ERF) is challenging due to cross-linguistic differences between L1 and L2. This study replicated, with modifications, prior study of "syntactic enhancement and secondary school EFL Students' reading fluency in South Korea." The current project investigated the impact of visual-syntactic text formatting (VSTF) on developing ERF components (i.e., parsing skills, reading speed, and comprehension) in an Iranian context. In order to reformat block-formatted English text in a way to be more concise, the VSTF technology was used. For 20 weeks, two experimental groups (76 intermediate EFL students) read reformatted passages, whereas the control group (n = 38) read their block-formatted textbook. After analyzing the pre-and post-test results, it was demonstrated that reformatted texts could support EFL students to enhance their ERF elements. The researchers also found that VSTF can be used as a syntactic enhancement, making it simpler for EFL learners to receive English syntactic information as input. Findings have led to the reasonable interpretation that learning L2 reading fluency components (RFC) was more productive when the VSTF technology was utilized for the learning processes.
由于母语和二语之间存在跨语言差异，因此培养英语阅读流畅性（ERF）具有挑战性。本研究在韩国对“句法增强与中学英语外语学生阅读流畅性”的研究进行了修改和复制。本项目在伊朗语境下，研究了视觉句法文本格式化（VSTF）对发展 ERF 成分（即解析技能、阅读速度和理解）的影响。为了使英语的分栏格式文本更简洁，使用了 VSTF 技术。在 20 周的时间里，两个实验组（76 名中级 EFL 学生）阅读了重新格式化的段落，而对照组（n=38）则阅读了他们的分栏格式的课本。在分析了前测和后测的结果后，结果表明，重新格式化的文本可以支持 EFL 学生提高他们的 ERF 元素。研究人员还发现，VSTF 可以作为一种句法增强，使 EFL 学习者更容易接收英语句法信息作为输入。研究结果合理地解释了，当 VSTF 技术应用于学习过程时，学习第二语言阅读流畅性成分（RFC）更具成效。
