THE EFFECTS OF SIMPLIFICATION AND ELABORATION ON READING COMPREHENSION OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS

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KESHAVARZ H.; MOBARRA MOHAMMAD KAZEM

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Journal: IRANIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS (IJAL) Year:2003 | Volume:6 | Issue:1 Page(s): 101-117

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THE EFFECTS OF SIMPLIFICATION AND ELABORATION ON READING COMPREHENSION OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS

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KESHAVARZ H. | MOBARRA MOHAMMAD KAZEM | Issue Writer Certificate

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SIMPLIFICATIONQ4

ELABORATIONQ4

READING COMPREHENSIONQ4

IRANIAN EFL LEARNERSQ4

Abstract

Linguistic SIMPLIFICATION of written texts may increase their comprehensibility for nonnative speakers but, at the same time, it may perilously reduce their utility for language learning in other ways, for example, through the removal of linguistic items that learners do not know but need to learn. This study was, therefore, conducted to test the hypothesis that elaborative modification observed in oral foreigner talk discourse, where redundancy and explicitness compensate for unknown linguistic items, offers a potential alternative approach to written text modification. To accomplish this task, 5 reading passages were randomly presented to 140 language learners - who had been chosen from among 265 students and whose homogeneity was ensured through a valid test of general English - in one of the three forms; (a) unmodified, (b) simplified, or (c) elaborated. Findings of the study show that the subjects did nearly the same in elaborated and simplified reading passages. However, since elaborated passages preserve the authenticity and naturalness of the language to a quite degree, they are preferable to the conventional simplified texts.

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KESHAVARZ, H., & MOBARRA, MOHAMMAD KAZEM. (2003). THE EFFECTS OF SIMPLIFICATION AND ELABORATION ON READING COMPREHENSION OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS (IJAL), 6(1), 101-117. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/55209/en

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KESHAVARZ H., MOBARRA MOHAMMAD KAZEM. THE EFFECTS OF SIMPLIFICATION AND ELABORATION ON READING COMPREHENSION OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS (IJAL)[Internet]. 2003;6(1):101-117. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/55209/en

IEEE: Copy

H. KESHAVARZ, and MOHAMMAD KAZEM MOBARRA, “THE EFFECTS OF SIMPLIFICATION AND ELABORATION ON READING COMPREHENSION OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS,” IRANIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS (IJAL), vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 101–117, 2003, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/55209/en

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