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Effects of topic interest and prior knowledge on text recall and annotation use in reading a hypermedia text in the L2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2010

Gülcan Erçetin
Gülcan Erçetin*
Affiliation:
Bogaziçi University, Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Language Education, 34342 Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey. Tel: +90 212 359 4588; Fax: +90 212 257 5036 (email:gulcaner@boun.edu.tr)
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Abstract

This study investigates the effects of topic interest and prior knowledge on text recall and annotation use of second language learners engaged in reading a hypermedia text. The participants were proficient learners of English enrolled in an undergraduate English Language Teaching programme. They were asked to read a hypermedia text that incorporated word-level and topic-level annotations, and complete an immediate recall task. Participants’ interaction with the text was recorded during the reading task. Data collection tools also included a topic interest questionnaire, a prior knowledge test, and semi-structured interviews. Results indicated no meaningful relationship between topic interest and prior knowledge. Moreover, topic interest had a significant main effect on text recall while prior knowledge did not. In other words, topic interest facilitated the number of propositions recalled. Finally, a significant interaction between topic interest and prior knowledge was found in terms of access to annotations. When topic interest was low, the participants with low prior knowledge utilized content-related annotations more frequently than those with high prior knowledge. On the other hand, when topic interest was high, the participants with high prior knowledge accessed content-related annotations more frequently than those with low prior knowledge.

Keywords

HypermediaL2 readingtext recallprior knowledgetopic interestannotation use
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Regular papers
Information
ReCALL , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , May 2010 , pp. 228 - 246
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Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 2010

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