텍스트도식화 활동이 고등학생들의 영어 읽기에 미치는 영향

The Effects of text diagramming activities on English reading comprehension

  This study examines the effects of text diagramming activities on Korean high school students’ reading comprehension. To investigate the effects of text diagramming activities, 112 students of the 11th grade were sampled from a high school in Busan, Korea. They were divided into two groups: the experimental group (56 students) and the compared group (56 students). Experimental group students were given the task which was composed of the blanks in the text-based diagram. Experimental group students were supposed to fill in the blanks. Sometimes they made their own diagram as a task in the class. The text diagramming activities were conducted 10-15minutes, 20 times for 10 weeks. The findings of this study were: (1) the text diagramming activities had no significant effects on their reading comprehension ability, and (2) the text diagramming activities had no effects on the readers’ comprehension of English text not only between low-level groups but also between high-level groups. The results said that this experiment had not found significant effects of the text diagramming.