Low second language proficiency and register complexity as influences on L2 reading : A reassessment of the threshold hypothesis
Low second language proficiency and register complexity as influences on L2 reading : A reassessment of the threshold hypothesis
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第二语言水平低和语域复杂性对第二语言阅读的影响：阈值假设的重新评估
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2000
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J. Gibbons
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Nasrin Shokepour;J. Gibbons
继奥尔德森（1984）提出的著名问题后，“到底是外语阅读问题还是语言问题？”在美国，对这个问题进行了各种各样的研究。这些研究大多支持阈值假设，即第二语言水平低会阻碍母语阅读策略向第二语言文本阅读的转移。本研究试图重新解释这一假设，并评估语篇语域复杂性对这一假设的影响。结果表明，低外语水平和语域复杂性方面的语篇难度对优秀的母语读者将母语阅读转化为二语阅读的能力产生了负面影响。
After the famous question posed by Alderson (1984), Is SL reading problem or a language problem?, a wide variety of studies have been conducted on the issue. Most of these studies support the threshold hypothesis which states that low second language proficiency blocks the transfer of first language (LI) reading strategies to the reading of second language (L2) texts. This study is an attempt to reinterpret this hypothesis and asses the influence on it of the register complexity of texts. The results indicate that it is not only low foreign language proficiency but also text difficulty in terms of register complexity that negatively affect the ability of good L1 readers to transfer L1 reading to the reading of L2 texts.