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Table 10 Mean of reading strategies in summarization

From: The role of reading and writing in summarization as an integrated task

No. Strategy description

Mean

21 Read title

4.486

22 Establish connections between propositions

3.459

23 Identify and skip unknown word

3.765

24 Identify problem in understanding

3.288

25 Reflect on particular word/phrase/expression

3.281

26 Infer word/phrase/sentence meaning

3.685

27 Moderate understanding

3.578

28 Compare related information within text

3.355

29 Interpret content meaning with own words

3.688

30 Affirm understanding

3.581

31 Check inference

3.581

32 Translate/process text content for understanding

3.230

33 Recall word meaning

3.198

34 Use linguistic knowledge to guess word/phrase meaning

3.657

35 Refer to previous part

3.754

36 Dis/confirm inference

3.334

37 Reread for clarification

3.495

38 Integrate what is already known with text idea

3.681

39 Skip unknown phrase/portion

3.707

40 Use context clues to interpret meaning

3.859

41 Use context clues to predict meaning

3.892

42 Use phonological cues

2.437

43 Extrapolate based on understanding

3.611

44 Note and analyze sentence structure

2.625

45 Note and analyze text structure

3.121

46 Identify and learn key words in text

3.524

General mean

3.495

S.D.

0.402