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Direct linkGarth-McCullough, Ruanda – Reading Horizons, 2008
By analyzing the prior knowledge of African American students, this study explored the relationship between cultural orientation of literature and reading comprehension to determine its effect on low, mid, and high level readers. Over one hundred 8th grade students from four different public schools read short stories from three different cultural…
Descriptors: African American Students, Grade 8, Prior Learning, Relationship
Peer reviewedCarrell, Patricia L. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1983
Two unresolved issues in first language and second language research on the role of background knowledge in comprehension are discussed: (1) the theoretical distinction between "content" and "formal" schemata and their interrelationship in texts and (2) the relationship of effects measured in cross-cultural research to background knowledge that…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedChan, Cecilia Yuet Hung – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2003
Examines the relation between background knowledge and second language (L2) proficiency in L2 reading performance in two groups of university learners of English, one from mainland China and one from Hong Kong. Results show a strong cultural effect on reading comprehension, but not on post-intermediate readers. Findings have implications for…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, Higher Education
Peer reviewedDroop, Mienke; Verhoeven, Ludo – Journal of Literacy Research, 1998
Examines the role of cultural background knowledge on the reading comprehension of third graders acquiring literacy in Dutch as a first and second language while reading noncontrived texts from the reading curricula. Finds a facilitating effect of cultural familiarity for both reading comprehension and reading efficiency. Notes that this effect…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Cultural Context, Dutch, Foreign Countries
Download full textSkinner, Robert E. – 1994
It is argued that limited-English-proficient (LEP) readers, like all readers, process print with the intent to comprehend it, and all readers bring different background knowledge that influences how they derive meaning from text. Cultural influences are extremely significant in determining background knowledge, both cognitive and social. The…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Cultural Literacy, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedPritchard, Robert – Reading Research Quarterly, 1990
Examines how cultural schemata influence American and Palauan students' reported strategies and their reading comprehension. Finds that students predominantly use processing strategies categorized under awareness development and intrasentential ties establishment for culturally unfamiliar passages. Finds that students use intersentential ties and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Grade 11
Fly, Pamela K. – 1994
Current theory posits that comprehension and meaning involve not only text but also what the reader brings to the text and the contextual elements of the reading. A study investigated how eight students in grade 9 read and created meaning from short story assignments in their English classrooms. Concurrent think-aloud protocols from four short…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, English Instruction, Grade 9
Kim, Byong Won, Ed. – 1984
Focusing on instruction in the English language arts by students for whom English is a second language, this yearbook contains the papers from the precongress institute, "Reading English in Asia," of the tenth International Reading Association World Congress on Reading--held in Hong Kong in 1984. Part 1 contains "Linguistic Theories and L2…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Cultural Context
