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.

English language.

Language and languages--Study and teaching--Argentina.

Language and languages.

Second language acquisition--Argentina.

Second language acquisition.

Language and culture--Argentina.

Language and culture.

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