31.1271, Diss: English; Applied Linguistics: Samet Taşçı: ''The role of L2 lexical and syntactic knowledge in L2 reading comprehension of Turkish EFL learners''

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Subject: 31.1271, Diss:  English; Applied Linguistics: Samet Taşçı: ''The role of L2 lexical and syntactic knowledge in L2 reading comprehension of Turkish EFL learners''

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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 20:36:50
From: Samet Taşçı [samettasci at nevsehir.edu.tr]
Subject: The role of L2 lexical and syntactic knowledge in L2 reading comprehension of Turkish EFL learners

 
Institution: Anadolu University 
Program: English Language Teaching 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2019 

Author: Samet Taşçı

Dissertation Title: The role of L2 lexical and syntactic knowledge in L2
reading comprehension of Turkish EFL learners 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Dissertation Director(s):
Ümit Deniz Turan

Dissertation Abstract:

The primary objective of the current study is to investigate the role of L2
lexical (breadth and depth) and syntactic knowledge in L2 reading
comprehension of adult Turkish EFL learners. Moreover, the study aims to find
out the contribution of L2 lexical and syntactic knowledge to L2 reading
comprehension of Turkish EFL students having different L2 reading proficiency
levels. With these purposes, the data of the study were collected through a
Reading Comprehension Test compiled from TOEFL, Vocabulary Levels Test, Word
Associates Test, and Syntactic Knowledge Test from 254 Turkish university
students learning English as a foreign language. After the data gathered from
the whole sample were analyzed, the participants were divided into two groups
based on their reading comprehension test scores. The results of the study
showed that although vocabulary breadth, depth and syntactic knowledge
positively and significantly correlated with L2 reading comprehension, only
vocabulary breadth and syntactic knowledge predicted L2 reading comprehension
of the whole sample. Moreover, the predictive power of syntactic knowledge was
found to be higher than that of vocabulary breadth. Similarly, syntactic
knowledge outperformed in terms of predictive power in L2 reading
comprehension of the participants having high reading comprehension level. On
the other hand, only vocabulary breadth made the largest and significant
contribution to L2 reading comprehension of the participants with low reading
comprehension level.




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