The Effect of Text Length on Students‟ Reading Comprehension

dc.creator	Yan Wang
dc.date	2011-09-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:20:35Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:20:35Z
dc.identifier	10.4304/tpls.1.9.1160-1166
dc.identifier	1799-2591
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/bbacfdd76203420aaefacb4fbc1944c9
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/20143
dc.description	This study investigated the impact of text length on reading comprehension. Three reading comprehension passages accompanied by 30 items were reduced to two thirds of their original lengths. The truncated versions along with the original version were randomly administered to 100 male and female college students of English (50) and non-English majors (50). Although the participants performed marginally better on the shortened version of the test, a two-way ANOVA revealed that the length of the text did not have any statistically significant effect on the students' performance on the two versions of the test. No interaction between the length of the test and the students' major was found either. Further analysis of the data indicated that sex did not have any significant effect on the performance of the students on the two versions of the test. The article concludes with suggestions for further investigations into the issue in question.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	ACADEMY PUBLISHER
dc.relation	http://ojs.academypublisher.com/index.php/tpls/article/view/5578
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1799-2591
dc.source	Theory and Practice in Language Studies , Vol 1, Iss 9, Pp 1160-1166 (2011)
dc.subject	text length
dc.subject	reading comprehension
dc.subject	effects
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	DOAJ:Languages and Literatures
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	DOAJ:Languages and Literatures
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.title	The Effect of Text Length on Students‟ Reading Comprehension
dc.type	article