Suppression of character in English story-reading: The case of Chinese students

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10.2991/ichssd-17.2018.98How to use a DOI?

Keywords

suppression of character, English story-reading, comprehension, the threshold effect, the EFL learners.

Abstract

The study, from the perspective of Structure Building Framework by Gensbacher, provides the basis interpretation of story-reading comprehension processing for L2 learners. The findings of two experiments, conducted with the aid of E-Prime Programming, revealed that (1) learners activate suppression mechanism to escape from the irrelevant information for tracking down the character in comprehending the cause-effect clue; (2) learners' language competence is provided with the interactive influence with the efficiency of suppression; and (3) the "threshold effect" appears in suppression of character due to the learners' language efficiency level.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Na Zhao
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TI  - Suppression of character in English story-reading: The case of Chinese students
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Humanities Science and Society Development (ICHSSD 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 468
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