TED University
Faculty of Education
"A Close Observation of Second Language (L2) Readers and Texts: Meaning Construction through Cohesion"
By
Dr. Zeynep Bilki
Date: September 6, 2016, Tuesday
Time: 10:00 – 10:30
Place: D126
Abstract: With the use of multiple qualitative research methods, this study examined proficient second language (L2) readers’ ongoing interaction with the texts that vary in degree of cohesion as well as their perspectives on the meaning representation process that lead them to the final meaning construction. The data analyzed qualitatively using a grounded theory approach revealed that the readers' meaning representation activities displayed differences at and between two levels of processing of the texts, the local and global, especially in the process of reading the low-cohesive text. The differences between the readers also confirmed that the meaning established from a text depended not only on two processing levels, but also on strategies related to the establishment of an information hierarchy and the relationships between the textual concepts. The findings have implications for theories of text processing as well as the design of materials and instruction used for advanced and lower level L2 readers.
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