THE FACTORS AFFECTING EFL STUDENTS’ SUMMARY WRITING

Table of contents

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Chapter one: Introduction

1.0 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………. 2

1.1 Preliminaries…………………………………………………………………………………… 2

1.1.1Vocabulary and summary writing…………………………………………….. 3

1.1.1.1 Breadth of vocabulary……………………………………………………… 4

1.1.1.2 Depth of vocabulary…………………………………………………………. 5

1.1.2 L2 Proficiency and summary writing……………………………………….. 6

1.1.3 Reading comprehension and summary writing………………………… 7

1.1.4 Genre of the text (text type) & summary writing……………………… 9

1.2 Statement of problem…………………………………………………………………….. 11

1.3 Objective of the study……………………………………………………………………. 12

1.4 Research Questions ………………………………………………………………………. 13

1.5 Significance of the study……………………………………………………………….. 13

1.6 Definition of the key terms……………………………………………………………. 14

Chapter two:

2.0 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………… 16

2.1 theoretical aspects…………………………………………………………………………. 17

2.2 Summary writing background and related studies…………………………. 19

2.3 Studies on the relationship between summary writing and

 vocabulary knowledge……………………………………………………………………….. 27

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2.4 Studies on the relationship between summary writing

and reading comprehension………………………………………………………………… 29

2.5 Studies on the relationship between summary writing

and L2 language proficiency……………………………………………………………….. 35

2.6 Studies on the relationship between  summary writing

and source text’s genre or text type…………………………………………………….. 38

2.7 Summary……………………………………………………………………………………….. 42

Chapter three:

3.0 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………… 48

3.1 Participants……………………………………………………………………………………. 48

3.2 Instruments and material……………………………………………………………….. 49

3.2.1 Proficiency test………………………………………………………………………. 49

3.2.2 Vocabulary breadth test…………………………………………………………. 49

3.2.3 Vocabulary depth test…………………………………………………………….. 50

3.2.4 Reading texts………………………………………………………………………….. 50

3.2.5 Two summaries………………………………………………………………………. 51

3.3 Data collection procedures……………………………………………………………. 51

3.4 Data analysis procedure………………………………………………………………… 52

Chapter four:

4.0 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………… 56

4.1 Results…………………………………………………………………………………………… 56

4.1.1 Multiple regressions for narrative summary writing……………….. 57

4.1.2 Multiple regressions for expository summary writing…………….. 59

4.1.3 Question one………………………………………………………………………….. 61

4.1.2 Questions two…………………………………………………………………………. 62

4.1.3 Question three………………………………………………………………………… 72

4.2 Discussion…………………………………………………………………………………….. 74

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Chapter five:

5.0 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………… 82

5.1 Summary & conclusion…………………………………………………………………. 82

5.2 Pedagogical implications……………………………………………………………….. 85

5.3 suggestions for further research…………………………………………………….. 86

5.4 Limitations…………………………………………………………………………………….. 87

Reference……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 88

 

APPENDICES

Appendices 1……………………………………………………………………………………… 101

Appendices 2……………………………………………………………………………………… 107

Appendices 3……………………………………………………………………………………… 111

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LIST OF TABLES

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Table 3.1 Rubric for assessing summaries……………………………………………….. 53

Table 4.1 Descriptive Statistics……………………………………………………………….. 57

Table 4.2 Effect of all variables on NSP …………………………………………………. 58

Table 4.3 Multiple correlation results for NSP………………………………………… 58

Table 4.4 Coefficients for NSP………………………………………………………………… 59

Table 4.5 One-way ANOVA results on NSP (for proficiency)…………………. 60

Table 4.6 The results of post hoc (scheffe) test for proficiency………………. 60

Table 4.7 One way ANOVA for breadth of vocabulary on NSP……………….. 61

Table 4.8 Post hoc test for vocabulary breadth on NSP……………………………. 62

Table 4.9 One-way ANOVA for NRC………………………………………………………. 63

Table 4.10 Post hoc (scheffe) table for NRC……………………………………………. 63

Table 4.11 Effect of all variables on ESP…………………………………………………. 64

Table 4.12 multiple correlation results for ESP……………………………………….. 64

Table 4.13 coefficient for ESP…………………………………………………………………. 65

Table 4.14 one-way ANOVA on ESP (for proficiency)……………………………. 66

Table 4.15 the results of post hoc (scheffe) test………………………………………. 66

Table 4.16 one-way ANOVA for vocabulary breadth on ESP………………….. 68

Table 4.17 post hoc test for vocabulary breadth……………………………………… 68

Table 4.18 one-way ANOVA results for vocabulary depth on ESP………….. 69

Table 4.19 post hoc test for vocabulary depth…………………………………………. 70

Table 4.20one-way ANOVA for ERC………………………………………………………. 71

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Table 4.21 post hoc results for ERC………………………………………………………… 72

Table 4.22 descriptive statistics for summaries……………………………………….. 72

Table 4.23 paired sample t-test………………………………………………………………… 73