Post on 10-Jul-2015
The Effect of Visual Strategies on Textual Structures in
Listening Process to Comprehension Level of the
Listeners
Presenter: Leya TsaiInstructor: Dr. Pi-Ying Teresa HsuOctober 15, 2009
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Ulper, H. (2009). The effect of visual
strategies on textual structures in listening
process to comprehension level of the
listeners. Procedia Social and Behavioral
Sciences, 1, 568-574.
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Reflection
Contents
Introduction
Methodology
Results
Conclusion
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Introduction
In the story reading process, creating
awareness on the schematic structure of
the stories has positive effects on
comprehending the texts.
( Bozkurt, 2005)
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Introduction
Using visual materials in comprehension
process is important.
(Linda & Plass, 2002)
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Purpose
to investigate the effect of the
schematic structure of story texts as a
visual strategy on comprehension
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Formal schema
Linguistic
schema
Structural characteristics of the text
Background and world knowledge
Vocabulary, grammar,
word phrase
Schematic Structure
Content Schema
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Methodology
Material
Method
Duration
Location
Participants99 6th grade
primary students
Turkey
5-hour course
Control group experimental design
Story texts
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26 students
Control group
38 students
Experiment group 1
35 students
Experiment group 2
Methodology
Participants:
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Methodology Materials: two story texts
number of the words (about 552-553 words)
being works of the same author
the amount of unknown vocabulary
Criteria of the stories
equality of the reading period (about 10 minutes)
The appropriateness of the theme to the background knowledge of the students
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Procedure
Pre-test
Traditional approach
Control group
Teaching activities about schematic structure of story
Experiment group 1
Teaching activities about schematic structure of story
Experiment group 2
Post-test
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Pre-test
researcher
Control group
Experiment group 1
Experiment group 2
Reading
the story
Interpretation Qs&
Literal text Qs
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Post-test
Control Group
Listening to the story
Q/A
Experiment group 1
Experiment group 2
Listening to the story
A slide showing schematic structure
Listening to the story
Handout including schematic structure
Q/A Q/A
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Methodology
Interpretation questions
• What kind of a person is the main character? Why?
• How else should the story end?
Literal text questions
• What is the title of the
story?
• Where does the events
take place?
Instrument
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Results
There is a significant difference in the achievement level of the students’ listening comprehension between the control group and experiment group 1.
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There is a significant difference in the achievement level of the students’ listening comprehension between the control group and experiment group 2.
Results
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There is no significant difference in the achievement level of the students’ listening comprehension between the experiment group 1 and experiment group 2.
Results
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Conclusion
The use of story schematic structure as
a visual strategy as a listening activity
increased listening-comprehension
level of the students.
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Reflection
What does the schematic structure look
like
The same treatment in experiment group
1 and 2
No samples?
?
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Reflection
Is five-hour course enough for students to
develop awareness of schematic structure
of stories
Different ways of test in post-test
?
?
Thank you !