Title
Intercultural rhetoric and reading comprehension in a second language
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
Reading Psychology
Publication Date
10-6-2010
Volume
31
Issue
5
First Page
472
Last Page
491
Publisher
Routledge
Abstract
Intercultural rhetoric has been studied in the context of second language writing for many decades. This article looks at the topic from a new perspective and offers an experimental study of the effects of intercultural rhetoric on reading comprehension. The experiment was set in Hong Kong, China, and assessed the reading comprehension (using a rational cloze design and quantitative and qualitative recall protocols) of 490 school students who were presented with four rhetorically different texts. Results suggest that the rhetoric of the students' first language (Chinese) had clear effects on reading comprehension.
DOI
10.1080/02702710903054949
Print ISSN
02702711
E-ISSN
15210685
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Language
English
Recommended Citation
Sharp, A. I. (2010). Intercultural rhetoric and reading comprehension in a second language. Reading Psychology, 31(5), 472-491. doi: 10.1080/02702710903054949
