Effects of Graded Texts on EFL College Students' Incidental ...

a result, valid subjects dropped from 70 to 38 college freshmen.
In this chapter, the results gathered from the background questionnaire, the
pretest, the posttest, the online questionnaire, and the in-class questionnaire were
analyzed and presented first. Then, the feasibility <strong>of</strong> introducing an online extensive
reading syllabus to EFL learning environment for vocabulary purposes, learners’
attitudes towards the online syllabus, and times <strong>of</strong> vocabulary exposure needed for
acquisition in an online extensive reading environment are discussed.
4.2. Results
The research data in this study come from four sources: (1) participants’
responses to the background questionnaire, (2) participants’ pretest scores, (3)
participants’ posttest scores, and (4) participants’ responses to the online evaluation
questionnaire, (5) participants’ responses to the in-class evaluation questionnaire.
The results <strong>of</strong> data analyses are presented as follows.
4.2.1 The results <strong>of</strong> the background questionnaire
Before learners were exposed to the online extensive reading syllabus, copies <strong>of</strong>
the background questionnaires were delivered for obtaining information on learners’
use <strong>of</strong> computer and internet (the 1 st to 8 th item), their perspectives on English
learning (the 9 th to 12 th item), and their experiences <strong>of</strong> extensive reading (13 th to 17 th
item).
A very high percentage <strong>of</strong> learners (94.7%) used computers frequently and all <strong>of</strong>
them had a PC at school. Also, during winter vacation, 97.3% <strong>of</strong> the students had
Internet access at home. Despite learners’ frequent use <strong>of</strong> computers, merely 7.9%
<strong>of</strong> them used Internet resources to learn English on a regular basis and only 26.3% <strong>of</strong>
them had past experience <strong>of</strong> using computers to assist language learning in English
classes (see Table 4.1).
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