Reading activities for understanding the structure and main subject of expository text

Abstract

To understand an expository text, questioning enhances comprehension monitoring of the reader. This study ask Japanese learner with advanced level to make a question and the corresponding answer for assessing one's understanding of a text. After analyzing the results, it is clear that the questions they made was reflected their understanding of structure of the text. Using a part of the contents, their way of thinking was reminded by making a question and answer.