The impact of a linguistic intervention on rhetorical inferential comprehension and metacognition in EFL academic reading: A quasi-experimental, mixed-methods study

The connections between metacognition and metalinguistic awareness are under- researched and poorly understood in the field of foreign language reading. This paper uses a linguistic intervention to investigate the connections between rhetorical inference making, linguistic awareness inspired in Syst...

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Autores principales: Perales Escudero,Moisés, Reyes Cruz,María del Rosario, Hernández Méndez,Edith
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Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje 2015
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-093420150003000032015-12-21The impact of a linguistic intervention on rhetorical inferential comprehension and metacognition in EFL academic reading: A quasi-experimental, mixed-methods studyPerales Escudero,MoisésReyes Cruz,María del RosarioHernández Méndez,Edith Reading comprehension language awareness metacognition Systemic- Functional Linguistics English as a Foreign Language The connections between metacognition and metalinguistic awareness are under- researched and poorly understood in the field of foreign language reading. This paper uses a linguistic intervention to investigate the connections between rhetorical inference making, linguistic awareness inspired in Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL), and forms of metacognition. An intervention inspired in SFL was designed and implemented using a quasi-experimental design. The target genres were the introduction of the empirical research article and the discussion article. The control group received traditional instruction focusing on background knowledge and vocabulary. Answers to a pre-/post-test were analyzed quantitatively; answers to a written, self-report questionnaire were analyzed qualitatively. The quantitative results show gains in inferential comprehension for both groups, but a greater effect size for the experimental group. The qualitative results show gains along several meta- comprehension dimensions for the experimental group. Students’ self-reports suggest that metalinguistic awareness promotes increased monitoring, raised standards of coherence, and willingness to engage in effortful processing.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del LenguajeRevista signos v.48 n.89 20152015-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-09342015000300003en10.4067/S0718-09342015000300003
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topic Reading comprehension
language awareness
metacognition
Systemic- Functional Linguistics
English as a Foreign Language
spellingShingle Reading comprehension
language awareness
metacognition
Systemic- Functional Linguistics
English as a Foreign Language
Perales Escudero,Moisés
Reyes Cruz,María del Rosario
Hernández Méndez,Edith
The impact of a linguistic intervention on rhetorical inferential comprehension and metacognition in EFL academic reading: A quasi-experimental, mixed-methods study
description The connections between metacognition and metalinguistic awareness are under- researched and poorly understood in the field of foreign language reading. This paper uses a linguistic intervention to investigate the connections between rhetorical inference making, linguistic awareness inspired in Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL), and forms of metacognition. An intervention inspired in SFL was designed and implemented using a quasi-experimental design. The target genres were the introduction of the empirical research article and the discussion article. The control group received traditional instruction focusing on background knowledge and vocabulary. Answers to a pre-/post-test were analyzed quantitatively; answers to a written, self-report questionnaire were analyzed qualitatively. The quantitative results show gains in inferential comprehension for both groups, but a greater effect size for the experimental group. The qualitative results show gains along several meta- comprehension dimensions for the experimental group. Students’ self-reports suggest that metalinguistic awareness promotes increased monitoring, raised standards of coherence, and willingness to engage in effortful processing.
author Perales Escudero,Moisés
Reyes Cruz,María del Rosario
Hernández Méndez,Edith
author_facet Perales Escudero,Moisés
Reyes Cruz,María del Rosario
Hernández Méndez,Edith
author_sort Perales Escudero,Moisés
title The impact of a linguistic intervention on rhetorical inferential comprehension and metacognition in EFL academic reading: A quasi-experimental, mixed-methods study
title_short The impact of a linguistic intervention on rhetorical inferential comprehension and metacognition in EFL academic reading: A quasi-experimental, mixed-methods study
title_full The impact of a linguistic intervention on rhetorical inferential comprehension and metacognition in EFL academic reading: A quasi-experimental, mixed-methods study
title_fullStr The impact of a linguistic intervention on rhetorical inferential comprehension and metacognition in EFL academic reading: A quasi-experimental, mixed-methods study
title_full_unstemmed The impact of a linguistic intervention on rhetorical inferential comprehension and metacognition in EFL academic reading: A quasi-experimental, mixed-methods study
title_sort impact of a linguistic intervention on rhetorical inferential comprehension and metacognition in efl academic reading: a quasi-experimental, mixed-methods study
publisher Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje
publishDate 2015
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