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Direct linkMasmoudi, Dorra Moalla – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2020
Scientific knowledge is not communicated through the verbal mode only but through the integrated use of tabular, graphical and verbal forms, a fact that has positioned visual understanding as a major element of literacy demands to acquire advanced knowledge. In spite of this, empirical studies on how scientists develop meaning out of visual data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Aids, Visual Literacy, Reading Strategies
L2 Reading Research and Pedagogical Considerations in the Teaching of French and Francophone Theater
Edwards, Carole; Taylor, Alan M. – Applied Language Learning, 2012
Little research on improving second language (L2) reading comprehension of French and francophone theater has been conducted. This study provides insight into enhancing L2 comprehension of drama by combining L2 research with examples from L'accent grave by Jacques Prevert, Ton beau capitaine by Simone Schwarz-Bart (1987), Un Touareg s'est marie a…
Descriptors: Drama, Theater Arts, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Download full textGarrott, Carl L. – Online Submission, 2009
This study compared two groups of intermediate/advanced L2 French learners on a reading comprehension test when presented with or without background knowledge of the text. This study also compared intermediate and intermediate/advanced L2 French learners' reading comprehension when presented with increasing syntactic complexity. The results of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, French, Reading Comprehension
Cicurel, Francine – Francais dans le Monde, 1991
An interactive approach to teaching French second-language reading comprehension is described. The method emphasizes involving the readers in the comprehension process and encouraging them to draw on prior learning to create hypotheses about the text's content. A four-stage instructional process is outlined. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, French, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedHammadou, JoAnn – Modern Language Journal, 1991
A study investigated aspects of reading comprehension for familiar and unfamiliar topics among native and nonnative English-speaking college students enrolled in French and Italian courses. Results suggest that, as comprehension proficiency improves, qualitative differences appear rather than just quantitative ones. Background knowledge was found…
Descriptors: College Students, French, Higher Education, Inferences
Peer reviewedHammadou, Joann – Modern Language Journal, 2000
Explores the impact of analogies and prior content knowledge on reading comprehension of expository texts by both first and second language readers. Written recall protocols were analyzed for two texts. Readers were university students of French or English as a foreign language. Analogy was to have a debilitating effect on comprehension regardless…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), French, Higher Education
