Open AccessExperimental Research on English Reading Behavior Based on E-Prime System
Author(s) -
Feng Zhu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of higher education research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2717-607X
pISSN - 2717-6061
DOI - 10.32629/jher.v2i1.247
Subject(s) - adverbial , reading (process) , reading comprehension , prime (order theory) , sentence , linguistics , computer science , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , psychology , mathematics , philosophy , combinatorics
Guided by the framework of structural construction and based on the E-Prime experimental generation system, the reading time method and detection technology are used to investigate the differences of reading comprehension between conditional adverbial clauses which presented by two ways — preposition and postposition among native Chinese college students. It is found that there are significant differences in reading time and understanding between the preposition and postposition of conditional adverbial clauses in English reading. The results show that both at the sentence level and at the text level, the postposition structure is more difficult to characterize than the preposition structure, which affects the reading speed and the accuracy of understanding. The study aims to improve English reading teaching.