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Direct linkChen, Tianxu – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Lexical inference refers to the ability to make informed guesses about the meaning of an unknown word. This inferencing ability is affected by learner-related (i.e., morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge) and language-related (i.e., word semantic transparency) factors. Previous studies have shown that these factors play independent…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Chinese, Inferences
Prior, Anat; Goldina, Anna; Shany, Michal; Geva, Esther; Katzir, Tami – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
The current study examined the predictive roles of L2 vocabulary knowledge and L2 word reading skills in explaining individual differences in lexical inferencing in the L2. Participants were 53 Israeli high school students who emigrated from the former Soviet Union, and spoke Russian as an L1 and Hebrew as an L2. L2 vocabulary knowledge and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semitic Languages, Russian, Reading Comprehension
