Guessing vocabulary from context in reading texts
bissip için dedikodu gossip demişsin ne düşündün P: bissip
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için dedikodu gossip demişsin ne düşündün P: bissip deyince hani orada gossip bissip gibi okunuyor diye düşündüm işte half-truth falan demiş yani yarı gerçek RI – English: R: for bissip you said gossip gossip what did you think P: when it says bissip well there gossip sounds like bissip I thought well it said half-truth that is half true In the TAP sample, the participant provided a synonym for the target word, but he did not explain how he had arrived at that guess. However, in the RI he 54 reported his thought that bissip sounded similar to “gossip”. This reporting enabled the researcher to interpret the data more thoroughly. Each RI was audio-recorded as was done during the TAPs. At the end of the retrospective sessions three participants wanted to learn the actual meanings of the target vocabulary. All of the participants thanked the researcher for including them in a study that was very useful for them. Data Analysis Data were collected from three sources: an in-class reading task, TAPs, and RIs. The in-class reading task was used to identify three successful and three unsuccessful guessers according to their success in guessing the meanings of the target vocabulary. The correct responses were counted. The results were used in identifying the successful and unsuccessful guessers. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used in analyzing the TAPs and RIs. First, the strategies used by each participant in guessing vocabulary were identified. Then, the verbal protocols were coded according to the strategy classification coding scheme established by the researcher (see Appendix F for the coding scheme). A taxonomy of the strategies used in lexical inferencing was developed. Since both TAPs and RIs were used as main data collection devices, the frequencies and percentages were calculated for each strategy used during the TAPs and reported in the RIs. The data are presented in tables in the following chapter. Conclusion In this chapter the setting and the participants of the study, instruments for data collection, data collection procedures and data analysis techniques were 55 presented. In the next chapter, data analysis procedures and the results will be discussed in detail. 56 CHAPTER 4: DATA ANALYSIS Overview of the Study The present interventional study investigated the strategy use of pre- intermediate students at Hacettepe University, Department of Basic English (DBE) in guessing vocabulary from context in reading texts. This study, also aimed at differentiating between the strategy use of successful and unsuccessful guessers. Data were collected through an in-class reading task, think-aloud-protocols (TAPs) and retrospective interviews (RIs). As the initial step of data collection the in-class reading task was administered to a pre-intermediate class of 32 students, with the purpose of selecting the participants for the TAPs and RIs. In this reading task the participants were asked to guess the meanings of unknown vocabulary. According to their success in inferring the meanings of the target words, three successful and three unsuccessful guessers were identified. As the second step TAPs were conducted with the selected successful and unsuccessful guessers to investigate the strategies students employ during the actual contextual guessing process. Another reading task similar to the one used in determining the six successful and unsuccessful guessers was given to the participants in the TAPs. In this task, the participants were asked to verbalize their thoughts while they were trying to gloss the meanings of target unknown vocabulary. The final step was conducting the RIs in which the participants were asked questions about their strategy use for guessing the target words in the TAP task and the unintelligible sequences in the audio-recorded TAPs. In the RIs, to prompt |
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