英文摘要 |
Reading is the stepping stone of learning, and it is crucial to build up a foundation of reading literacy for children during the period of elementary school. Earlier research indicates that text structure guides readers to organize the macrostructure and identify important information of the text which enhance their reading comprehension. This study aims to explore the development of text structure awareness of the middle and senior grades of elementary school students, the difference of development, and the relationship between text structure and their reading comprehension. 659 3rd to 6th graders are probed with data collected through tests implemented with structure identification and reading comprehension. The main research result indicates that text structure can positively predict reading comprehension. Other results also include that (1) graders and structure awareness interact with each other on influencing reading comprehension; (2) 3rd-6th Graders perform better in identifying the narration structure than exposition type; (3) the structure awareness and reading comprehension grow when grade levels get advanced and the graders who recognizes the higher level structure perform better than the graders who does the lower level one. |