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- Title
Simplification Strategy and the Comprehension of Some Parts of Speech: Need or don’t Need to be Simplified?
- Authors
Suleiman Al-Safar, Osama Wael; Ismaeel Al-Halawachy, Ansam Ali
- Abstract
Simplification is broadly defined as providing learners with a simpler language system without being affected, but with a restricted use of language features. The current research attends to the use of simplification strategy to enhance English as a foreign language university students’ comprehension at the sentence level. It further aims at investigating whether nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs need to be simplified or not, and exploring which part of speech is best to be simplified. Based on the preceding aims, it is hypothesized that: (1) there are no statistical significant differences between students’ mean scores in comprehending nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in the base-form test and their mean scores in the simplification test; (2) there are no statistical significant differences between students’ mean scores in comprehending nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in the simplification test. To validate the hypotheses, a sample of 40 university students studying English as foreign language have been given a 20-sentence self-report comprehension test. This test has been prepared by the researchers and validated through distribution a panel of juries in the first place and then piloted to a number of students other than those included in the main study. To state their responses, students have to choose one option among six rating points starting from “nothing” to “everything”. The results show that simplification strategy significantly improved EFL learners’ comprehension in all parts of speech chosen in this study. Moreover, it is found that participants’ results were nearly the same in nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Therefore, it is concluded that simplifying unfamiliar vocabularies is positively effective in improving comprehension regardless of its type of parts of speech.
- Subjects
PARTS of speech; ENGLISH as a foreign language; LISTENING comprehension; FOREIGN language education; COMPREHENSION testing; READING comprehension; VERBS
- Publication
Journal of Surra Man Raa, 2021, Vol 17, Issue 68, p1047
- ISSN
1813-1735
- Publication type
Article