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Peer reviewedBensoussan, Marsha – Foreign Language Annals, 1986
Analysis of research involving reading comprehension ability in a second language shows that problems with illocutionary force, logical connectors, and modifiers indicate that many students are either unable to draw on a culturally appropriate memory schema for reading comprehension or have preconceived notions about word meaning that prevent them…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Cultural Awareness, Decoding (Reading), English
