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Direct linkRai, Manpreet K.; Loschky, Lester C.; Harris, Richard Jackson; Peck, Nicole R.; Cook, Lindsay G. – Language Learning, 2011
Although stress is frequently claimed to impede foreign language (FL) reading comprehension, it is usually not explained how. We investigated the effects of stress, working memory (WM) capacity, and inferential complexity on Spanish FL readers' inferential processing during comprehension. Inferences, although necessary for reading comprehension,…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Reading Comprehension, Photography, Form Classes (Languages)
Peer reviewedMcLeod, Beverly; McLaughlin, Barry – Language Learning, 1986
Adult native English speakers (N=20) and foreign students (N=44; most of them Japanese) enrolled in English as a second language (ESL) courses and completed a reading task and a cloze test to determine reading proficiency and prediction ability. While advanced ESL students made fewer total errors than beginning students, error patterns of all ESL…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Restructuring, English (Second Language)
