The Journal of AsiaTEFL Vol. 19 No. 1 pp. 109-124 https://www.doi.org/10.18823/asiatefl.2022.19.1.7.109
Effects of Pre-Task Planning and Source Texts on Korean EFL College Learners' Summary Writing
Yoonhee Choe Chongshin University, South Korea
Jisu Ryu Konkuk University, South Korea
Moongee Jeon Konkuk University, South Korea
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Abstract

This study aims to investigate to what extent pre-task planning and the source text type(genre) affect Korean English as a Foreign Language (EFL) college learners' summary writings in terms of lexical, sentential, and discourse-level features. A total of 120 summary writings of cause/effect expository texts and argumentative texts in the different modes of planning were collected and analyzed using a computational assessment tool, Coh-Metrix. The results show that the participants' summary writings in the different planning conditions and text types were statistically different according to their lexical-level (the mean word length, word frequency, imageability, concreteness, the third person pronouns), sentential-level (the mean sentence length, causal connectives, temporal connectives, noun density, Flesch-Reading Ease (FRE), Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL)), and discourse-level (type-token ratio, LSA cosines for all and adjacent sentences) features. This study provides some pedagogical implications for teaching English summary writings of various planning contexts and source text types.
Key Words : pre-task planning,no planning,source text types,summary writing,Coh-Metrix
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