Metacognitive and Cognitive Strategy Use in Reading Comprehension: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach

ISBN-13: 9789811063244 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 166 str.

Limei Zhang

Opis

This book examines the relationship between Chinese college-level test takers' strategy use and reading test performance using a Structural Equation Modelling Approach. With a large sample of Chinese college-level test takers, the book investigates the underlying structure of the EFL reading test.

Spis treści

Chapter One Introduction.- Chapter Two Development of the Framework of Language Use.- Chapter Three Reading Comprehension and Strategy Use.- Chapter Four Study Procedures and Data Collection.- Chapter Five Effect of Metacognitive and Cognitive Strategy Use on Reading Test Performance.- Chapter Six Gender Differences in Metacognitive and Cognitive Strategy Use and Reading Test Performance.- Chapter Seven Implications and Recommendations.

O autorze

Limei Zhang is a Lecturer at the Singapore Centre for Chinese Language, Nanyang Technological University. Limei has taught TESOL courses, language assessment and research methods in China and Singapore. She has been a Principal Investigator in several research projects sponsored by the Ministry of Education in Singapore, and has published in the area of language testing and second language acquisition.