Generating Causal Bridging Inferences in EFL Expository Reading : Combining On-Line and Off-Line Processing
Generating Causal Bridging Inferences in EFL Expository Reading : Combining On-Line and Off-Line Processing
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在英语说明性阅读中生成因果桥接推理：结合在线和离线处理
DOI：
10.20581/arele.25.0_239
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Masaya Hosoda
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作者：
Masaya Hosoda
尽管因果桥接推理生成已被证明有助于理解和学习说明文，但对英语读者进行的研究很少。因此，本研究探讨了英语读者是否会从说明文中产生因果桥接推理，重点关注推理处理的两个阶段：在线和离线。在在线阶段，共有51名日本大学生阅读说明性文章并回答验证问题，在离线阶段，使用句子识别任务来评估离线推理生成。目标句子的阅读时间和推理题的回答时间的联合模式表明，无论阅读水平如何，参与者在说明性阅读（即在线阅读）中都倾向于做出适当的推理。然而，句子识别任务的结果表明，当被要求在阅读后进行延伸反思（即离线）时，参与者确实产生了因果桥接推理，特别是高二语熟练程度的读者比低二语熟练程度的读者表现出更强的生成能力。线上和线下的研究结果都强调了英语学习者在自己从说明文中进行推理时的困难，从而强调了反思性任务的重要性，这种任务会引起额外的努力，而不是从文本中理解意义。
Although causal bridging inference generation has been evidenced to be instrumental in understanding and learning from expository texts, Iittle r search has been done with EFL readers, The present study therefore explored whether EFL readers generate causal bridging inferences from expository texts, focusing on two phases ofinference processing: on-line and offLline. In the on-line phase, a total of 51 Japanese underlgraduates read expository passages and answered verification questions, In the off-line phase, a sentence recognition task was used to evaluate offLline inference generation. Thejoint pattern of reading times for target sentences and response times for inference questions revealed that regardless ofL2 reading proficiencM participants fhiled to make appropriate inferences during expository reading (i.e., on-line). However, the results of the sentence recognition task indicated that when required to engage in extended reflection after reading (i.e., offline), partieipants did generate causal bridging inferences, In particulag high L2 proficiency readers showed more robust generation than low proficiency readers. Tbgetheg the onand offLline findings emphasize the diMculty EFL learners have in making inferences from expository texts by themselves, and thereby highlight he importance ofreflective tasks that elicit additional efft,rt to make meaning from texts,