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Direct linkAnvari, Sahar; Farvardin, Mohammad Taghi – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2016
There are many questions about how EFL learners infer word meanings from context and what distinguishes successful from less successful inferencers. This study explored the lexical inferencing strategies used by EFL learners and the characteristics which distinguish successful from less successful inferencers. To this end, 15 EFL students in an…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ghavamnia, Maedeh; Ketabi, Saeed; Tavakoli, Mansoor – Reading Psychology, 2013
This study investigated the differences in the type and frequency of strategy use by four proficient and four less-proficient readers. Thirty female senior undergraduates majoring in TEFL at a university in Iran were given a reading comprehension test. Based on the results of their reading test, eight were chosen based on a nonrandom purposive…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Classification
