英文摘要 |
Reading does not happen only on books; the surrounding print in our daily life can all be seen as reading texts. This study used the Chinese advertisement boards collected from streets as reading texts. The participants were six Japanese students, who were learning Chinese in Kaohsiung city. The purpose of this study was to examine the Japa-nese students’ Chinese reading strategies and the interactive process between these strategies and reading comprehension.Thirty-five pictures of the Chinese advertisement boards were used as the instru-ments to test Japanese students’ reading strategies and comprehension. The six partici-pants were also interviewed. The researcher coded and categorized data collected from testing and interview results and then analyzed their interactive relationship between reading strategies and comprehension.The researcher found that when reading Chinese advertisement boards, the Japa-nese students might apply a number of reading strategies at the same time in order to comprehend the texts and construct meaning. Because they shared the same native lan-guage, Japanese, they were all found to use their mother tongue and past life and learn-ing experiences in Japan as common strategies to figure out the texts.The researcher finally concluded that when constructing meaning from the texts, the reader’s selection of reading strategies was dynamic. What can help him/her figure out texts and build meaning are appropriate strategies that can be randomly chose by the reader. However, appropriate reading strategies do not guarantee that the reader would comprehend the texts without miscues. |