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Download full textMiller, Susan M. – 1995
A study determined if there would be any significant difference in comprehension from expository text between students instructed to use context clues and prior knowledge and those students not instructed in their use. It was hypothesized that students who only used a dictionary to understand words, not exploring context or prior knowledge, will…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Grade 3, Primary Education
Qi, Shuguang – 1992
The study investigated the role of a second language (L2) learner's prior cultural knowledge in target language lexical meaning-making. Comparison focuses on what important similarities in L2 lexical meaning-making of culturally loaded words appear among learners with the same ethnic background, and what important lexical meaning differences exist…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Cultural Awareness
