Cultural understanding in EFL reading in Argentina / Melina Porto.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Porto, Melina.

Series:

• Focus on civilizations and cultures.
• Novinka (Series)
• Focus on civilizations and cultures
• Novinka

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• English language--Argentina.
• Language and languages--Study and teaching--Argentina.
• Second language acquisition--Argentina.
• Language and culture--Argentina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (103 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text reports part of the results of a broader study whose specific aim was to describe the comprehension of the cultural content of a literary narrative text through response writing tasks and visual reformulations.

Contents:

• Intro
• CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING IN EFL READING IN ARGENTINA
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
• RATIONALE
• Conceptions of Reading in this Study
• Cultural Perspectives in L2 Reading
• Indeterminacy of Interpretation
• Insider and Outsider Perspectives in L2 Reading
• DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF THIS STUDY
• Chapter 2 METHODOLOGY
• RESEARCH QUESTION
• MATERIALS
• DATA COLLECTION AND INSTRUMENTATION
• Primary Data Sources
• Secondary Data Sources
• DATA ANALYSIS
• L1-L2 Relationship
• Global Coherence
• CULTURAL APPREHENSION: A GENERAL MODEL
• MODEL OF CULTURAL APPREHENSION DURING FOREIGN/SECOND LANGUAGE READING
• Cultural Idea Units
• Cultural Apprehension: Specific Reader Behaviors
• Visual Reformulations: Additional Elements4
• Chapter 3 RESULTS
• RESULTS ABOUT THE PRIMARY DATA SOURCES: RESPONSE WRITING TASKS AND THE VISUAL REFORMULATIONS
• Cultural Apprehension
• Reader Behaviors
• RESULTS ABOUT THE SECONDARY DATA SOURCES
• Chapter 4 TWO EXAMPLES
• DISCUSSION
• NOTE OF CAUTION
• RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE
• Chapter 5 CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES
• APPENDIX
• SAMPLE OF MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONNAIRES ABOUT READING IN SPANISH AND IN ENGLISH
• FRAGMENT FROM DESERT WIFE (FAUNCE, 1961: 173-181) KISMAS
• TERMINOLOGY DISCUSSION AROUND THE NATIVE AMERICANS
• APPENDIX. DATA ANALYSIS
• 1. HOLISTIC EVALUATION, OVERALL IMPRESSION OR GLOBAL COHERENCE OF THE PARTICIPANTS' PRODUCTIONS
• 2. MODEL OF CULTURAL APPREHENSION
• Level 0. Omission, Total Rejection, or Total Acceptance of Cultural Aspects
• Level 1. Perception/Identification of Cultural Differences
• Level 2. Identification of Own Values and Ideas. Identification of the Cultural Assumptions behind One's Own Culture.
• Level 3. Perception of Culture C2 from One's Own Frame of Reference
• Level 4. Perception of Culture C2 from the Frame of Reference of Members of Culture C2
• Level 5. Perception of Culture C1 from the Perspective of Culture C2
• 3. CULTURAL APPREHENSION: SPECIFIC READER BEHAVIORS
• INDEX.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record; title from PDF title page, viewed (07/10/2020).

ISBN:

1-61668-832-7

OCLC:

923662375