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On Lexical Inferencing and the Young Foreign-Language Learner.

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Palmberg, Rolf – System, 1987

Study of 11-year-old Swedish-speaking learners of English (N=21) reading two passages from an English fairytale for meaning found that the subjects mainly made use of two knowledge sources (their mother tongue and previous knowledge of the tale) to comprehend the tale. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Deep Structure, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Fairy Tales