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- Title
Second language learners' reading strategies. The case of intersemiotic relations.
- Authors
Marzban, Sheida; Fábián, Gyöngyi
- Abstract
The current paper discusses a pilot study with a focus on L2 learners' multimodal reading habits. More specifically, the study seeks to investigate (1) how second language learners read multimodal texts of different image-text relations, (2) which image-text relation builds a stronger visual or verbal mental representation of the text, and (3) whether age affects multimodal reading processes. In the present study, we focus our attention on students' reading practices of two types of multimodal texts which demonstrate the image-more-general-than-text and text-moregeneral- than-image relations (Martinec & Salway 2005) of visual and verbal representations of meaning. To do so, 70 B1 level Hungarian English language learners attend the research to read and respond to an online multimodal reading test. The preliminary results reveal that not all intersemiotic relations lead to a stronger mental model of multimodal texts; also, the generality of the mode and the degree of participant's visual involvement with the text affect both the processing and speed of reading and information recall. In addition, as far as the participants' age is concerned, adult second language learners spend longer time on reading multimodal texts and rely on images more frequently to respond to the texts. The present research may develop more comprehensive theoretical accounts of multimodal reading among L2 learners and inform pedagogical practices.
- Subjects
SECOND language acquisition; READING comprehension; ENGLISH language; HUNGARIAN language; LANGUAGE acquisition
- Publication
Argumentum (1787-3606), 2022, Issue 18, p392
- ISSN
1787-3606
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.34103/ARGUMENTUM/2022/22