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Effects of Working Memory Capacity and Content Familiarity on Literal and Inferential Comprehension in L2 Reading
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Alptekin, Cem; Ercetin, Gulcan – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
This study examines the effects of working memory capacity and content familiarity on literal and inferential comprehension in second language (L2) reading. Participants were 62 Turkish university students with an advanced English proficiency level. Working memory capacity was measured through a computerized version of a reading span test, whereas…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Familiarity, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning
Cultural Familiarity in Inferential and Literal Comprehension in L2 Reading
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Alptekin, Cem – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2006
This study explores the role of culturally familiar background knowledge in inferential and literal comprehension in L2 reading. Ninety-eight Turkish EFL (English as a Foreign Language) university students were divided into two groups of equivalent English proficiency. They read either the original of an American short story or a "nativized"…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Familiarity, Second Language Learning, Inferences