Reading has always received a great deal of
attention at both junior and senior high schools in
Taiwan. However, reading ability of English after six
years' learning is not satisfactory. The main problem is
that students do not read for the main idea nor for the
relationships between sentences. In addition, English
reading skills, even at the college level, are limited to
referring to the dictionary and analyzing sentence
structures. The purpose of the present study is to
explore this area; in particular, to determine the causes
of and to provide solutions to the problem of reading
difficulty by conducting a content analysis.
This study focuses on a content analysis in four
areas:(1) Analysis of reading comprehension questions,
(2) analysis of gradation of readability, (3) analysis of
gradation of structures, and (4) comparison of cohesive
ties between Chinese and English written texts using
similar topics.
The text samples to be examined included two areas:
(1) Book Six of The Standard English Textbook. This is
the final volume of the series currently prescribed for
senior high schools in Taiwan, and (2) three texts
written in Chinese and English, with similar topics. It
is hoped that some implications will be drawn from this
study for improving the effectiveness of teaching reading
in English at the secondary level in Taiwan.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/219125 |
| Date | January 1992 |
| Creators | Li, Te-yuan, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Education |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Te-yuan Li |
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