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ÀúÀÚ Zhen Liu ¡¤ Xiaohong Zhang ¡¤ Seung-Man Kang ±Ç 48 È£ 2
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Liu, Zhen & Zhang, Xiaohong & Kang, Seung-Man. ¡°The Use of Newspaper Articles to Enhance the Reading Proficiency of Chinese EFL Learners.¡± Studies in English Language & Literature 48.2 (2022): 147-163. Reading plays a critical role in improving the language proficiency of EFL learners. Indispensable to this end are appropriate reading materials for them to use in their reading class or on their own. This paper attempts to investigate the pedagogical effects of using newspaper articles as an authentic reading material. For our discussion, we take a survey among 65 Chinese EFL college students to find out their attitude towards news reading materials, strategies for reading, and enhancement in reading comprehension. The findings of the survey reveal that the teaching of these reading materials via explicit instruction exerts positive effects on the three objectives as follows. First, the paired-sample t-test of the pre-Q and the post-Q shows that teaching English newspaper materials improves the students¡¯ attitude towards English reading. Second, this test also shows that the students have greatly improved their reading strategies for reading. Third, the results of the paired-sample t-test and the independent t-test indicate that there is significant improvement in reading comprehension after explicit instruction. (Chungbuk National University)

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