The present study is designed to investigate the effects of text structure, cognitive demand, and test expectancy on reader's structure awareness. The major purposes of this study are (1) to test the effect of text structure on reader's text structure...
The present study is designed to investigate the effects of text structure, cognitive demand, and test expectancy on reader's structure awareness. The major purposes of this study are (1) to test the effect of text structure on reader's text structure awareness, (2) to test the effect of cognitive demand on reader's text structure awareness, (3) to test the effect of test expectancy on reader's text structure awareness. In this study, text structures are sequence structure and causation structure, and cognitive demands are structure-structure awareness demand, structure-content awareness demand, content-content awareness demand, control-control awareness demand, and test expectancies are recall test expectancy and control group.
A total of 321 were randomly assigned to one of the sixteen conditions made by two text structures, four cognitive demands, and two test expectancies.
To test the hypotheses set up in this study, ANOVA and Scheffe test were executed. Reader's structure awareness score was used as dependent variable.
The conclusions of this study can be summarized as follows:
1. Text structure(sequence structure and causation structure) didn't effect on reader's text structure awareness.
2. Readers who received any of three cognitive demands(structure awareness demand, content awareness demand, and structure/content awareness demand) awared text structure better than readers in no demand group, but there was no difference in text structure awareness among readers who received structure awareness demand or content awareness demand.
3. Test expectancy(recall test expectancy group and control group) effected on reader's text structure awareness. That is, readers who had recall test expectancy awared text structure better than readers who had no test expectancy.