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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