@article{oai:seijo.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004281,
 author = {KUBOTA, Mikio},
 issue = {179},
 journal = {成城文藝, The Seijo Bungei : the Seijo University arts and literature quarterly},
 month = {Sep},
 note = {P(論文), [Purposes] This research investigates how Japanese EFL university students chunk orthographic strings into meaningful words in order to find out which is more related to chunking abilities: cloze or reading comprehension abilities. The frequencies of overshooting errors and undershooting errors and the chunking patterns were also explored. [Method] The first-year university subjects (n=47) were requested to predict the word boundaries on the chunking test, and they were administered the cloze and reading comprehension tests. [Results] (1) The ability of chunking letter strings into words was more related to reading comprehension abilities than cloze ones. (2) The learners produced more overshooting than undershooting errors in both nominals and verbals. It seems that they failed to understand the meanings of the undershooted words more frequently than those of overshooted ones. (3) It was easy for the learners to detect stems in both nominals and verbals. Furthermore, they failed to understand anaphoric relations. [Conclusion] The results suggest that (1) the subcomponents of reading comprehension are tied to those of chunking, and (2) learners raise their consciousness to affixes and discourse development in reading/vocabulary in order to comprehend text/word more correctly.},
 pages = {81--58},
 title = {Chunking of Letter Strings into Words by Japanese EFL Learners : Correlation between Word-Recognition Abilities and Cloze/Reading Comprehension Abilities},
 year = {2002}
}