Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Innovations in Economic Management and Social Science (IEMSS 2017)

The Effects of Learners' Cognitive Styles and Article Structure Diagram on English Reading

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Rongbin Zhao
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Rongbin Zhao
Available Online April 2017.
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10.2991/iemss-17.2017.178How to use a DOI?
Keywords
cognitive style; information-reserving; article structure diagram
Abstract

Based on the characteristics that students can not allocate attentional resources in English reading comprehensively, this study uses the experimental method to study the effect of the article structure diagram on understanding and maintaining various types of information for non-English majors in different cognitive styles.The results indicate that: (1) Signals can effectively improve the student's understanding and reserving text's information. In reading text, the signal effects are evident. (2) There are differences in the understanding and reserving different types' information for readers of different cognitive styles. The text marked by incomplete signals resulted in the increase of the subordinate information for both field-dependent and field-independent readers, and the increase of the structured information for field-dependent readers. The text marked by complete signals resulted in the increase of the structured information for field-dependent readers and the increase of the subordinate informations for field-independent readers. Field-independent readers have a better performance in reserving the structured information in the condition of no signal.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Innovations in Economic Management and Social Science (IEMSS 2017)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
April 2017
ISBN
10.2991/iemss-17.2017.178
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/iemss-17.2017.178How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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