Saturday, February 24, 2018

READING COMPREHENSION IN LSP CLASSES: CONTENT FAMILIARITY, LITERAL READING AND INFERENTIAL COMPREHENSION By Dr. Codjo Charlemagne FANOU (The last part)


I. Objective
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The aim of this article is to determine the relationship between learners’ familiarity with domain knowledge  and their comprehension of specialized texts.


The purpose of this article is research of relationship between learners’ familiarty with level knowledge and their comprehension of spacialized texts.

II. Methodology
a. Participant
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Given the difficulties encountered by my students in Benin university colleges or faculties in understanding the English written teaching materials I used, especially the English written texts, I was interested in seeing, in the framework of my PhD dissertation in 2008-2009, how they would respond to questions on a French written text in a reading comprehension task on the stockmarket, with a French written text on the “Dow Jones Industrial Average” and some open ended questions in English.

A few years later, I decided to submit other students to the same task to see if I would get the same results as in 2008-2009 so that I could definitely deduce the impact of literal comprehension, without content familiarity, on inferential comprehension in learners’ L2, with a text written in learners’ L1 or in the official language (the education language) of their country. So, with a text that may be read by them relatively easily, literally speaking, I can assess their possibility to display a minimum of inferential comprehension in their productions as a result of their (supposed) literal comprehension

Participant in this journal is the researcher’s students in abomey-calavi university based on methodology: context.

b. Data collection
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In the three classes assessed in 2013, there were more correct answers than incorrect ones. This  proves that the number of the students who understood the text inferentially is greater than the
number of the students who did not. The proportion of students who understood the text inferentially was much greater than the proportion of students who understood it inferentially in 2008-2009. However, the respective proportions of correct answers for incorrect answers, of 60% for 40%, of 53.44% for 46.55% and of 69.04% for 30.95% reveal that a large number of students were unable to process the text inferentially even though the majority of them did it somehow.

There are three classes evaluated in 2013, more correct answers than incorrect. This evidence show that the students who understand the text is more excellent than the students who did not. Part of students who understand the text likely more excellent than the students who understand from it in 2008-2009. But, the comparison between part of true and false answer were, of 60 % for 40 %, of 53.44% for 46.55% and of 69.04% for 30.95% states that many students were not afford to the result of process the text even  they did it somehow  before.

III. Main Finding
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With no stock exchange in Benin, and only one stock exchange for the whole of West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) of which Benin is a member country, the students who have no stock exchange culture could not display much understanding of the concepts relating to the specific domain of the stock-exchange, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and many of them failed in their inferential comprehension, even though they may easily have a literal comprehension of the text.


There is no stock exchange in Benin, but only one stock exchange for the whole of West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) is still Benin part of the member country, the students who have different culture to exchange culture can not understand what the consepts relationship between  specific domain and the stock-exchange, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the big number students are failed in comprehension reading inferentially, while they have literal comprehension of text.

V. Conclusion
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In conclusion, literal understanding is not enough to ensure the inferential comprehension of a text no matter the language it is written in.
Finally, literal understanding is not good for measure the comprehension a text inferentially no problem the language it is written in.



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