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Additional file 1: Summary writing research questionnaire

Dear students:

We are doing a language testing research. Could you please help us by completing this questionnaire? The following questions are about the summary writing test you have just taken stating the various operations engaged. Please tick the option that most suits your situation. There is no right or wrong answer. All the information you submitted shall be taken as confidential and only used to serve the purpose of this research!

Name: Sex: male female

About reading strategy use

While reading the text, how did you apply the following strategies? Please tick one option from 1-5 that most suits your situation. 1=never, 2=occasionally, 3=sometimes,

4=often, 5=always. There is no right or wrong answer.

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20 Read instruction 1 2 3 4 5

21 Read title

22 Establish connections between propositions

23 Identify and skip unknown word

24 Identify problem in understanding

25 Reflect on particular word/phrase/expression

26 Infer word/phrase/sentence meaning

27 Moderate understanding

28 Compare related information within text

29 Interpret content meaning with own words

30 Affirm understanding

31 Check inference

32 Translate/process text content for understanding

33 Recall word meaning

34 Use linguistic knowledge to guess word/phrase meaning

35 Refer to previous part

36 Dis/confirm inference

37 Reread for clarification

38 Integrate what is already known with text idea

39 Skip unknown phrase/portion

40 Use context clues to interpret meaning

41 Use context clues to predict meaning

42 Use phonological cues

43 Extrapolate based on understanding

44 Note and analyze sentence structure

45 Note and analyze text structure

46 Identify and learn key words in text

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About writing strategy use

While summarizing the text, how did you apply the following strategies? Please tick one option from 1-5 that most suits your situation. 1=never, 2=occasionally,

3=sometimes, 4=often, 5=always. There is no right or wrong answer.

No. Description

47 Aware of task requirement and goal

48 Identify topic sentence of paragraph

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49 Recall idea

50 Reprocess information to clarify meaning

51 Assess importance of idea for use in writing

52 Work out main idea of paragraph

53 Set organizational frame to meet own rhetorical needs

54 Reorganize source pattern

55 Compare own writing to source

56 Edit for content

57 Edit for language, including grammar, expression, vocabulary and punctuation

58 Work out text thesis

59 Identify problem in writing

60 Integrate detail of what is read

61 Lift sentence from source

62 Manipulate information identified as important, such as delete unnecessary information or condense ideas

63 Paraphrase selected portion

64 Plan the process

65 Plan content and language

66 Recall word memory

67 Recall grammatical rule

68 Recall phrase or expression

69 Reread portion for use in writing

70 Reread title

71 Scan text for information to use in writing

72 Scan for specific word to use in writing

73 Skim for gist

74 Revise plan

75 Use phonological cues

76 Read own writing

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