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The Two-Sided Nature of Reliance on Prior Knowledge and on L1/L2 Structural Similarity in L2 Sentence Comprehension
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Rosenstein, Ofra; Meir, Irit; Miller, Paul – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
The study explored the contribution of prior knowledge and reliance on L1 syntactic knowledge to L2 written sentence comprehension. Participants, 102 native Hebrew speakers at three education levels (junior high, high school, and postsecondary), answered questions in two sentence categories: Semantically plausible sentences that readers can…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Sentences, Reading Comprehension, Native Language
The Effect of Background Knowledge on the Reading Comprehension of Second Language Learners.
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Haus, George J.; Levine, Martin G. – Foreign Language Annals, 1985
A study investigated the effect of relevant background knowledge on the reading comprehension of students of Spanish. Students with limited knowledge of baseball took a comprehension test on a Spanish-language report of a baseball game. Results indicate that background knowledge is possibly more important than language level for comprehension.…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Knowledge Level, Language Research
Comparison of L2 Listening and Reading Comprehension by University Students Learning English in Korea
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Park, Gi-Pyo – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
This study compared L2 listening comprehension with L2 reading comprehension in terms of the roles of linguistic knowledge, background knowledge, and question types among 168 university students learning English in Korea. The analyses of the data found that L2 listeners processed inferential information more easily than factual information, while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Linguistics, Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension
Beyond Linguistic Knowledge: Individual Differences in Second Language Reading.
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Brantmeier, Cindy – Foreign Language Annals, 2003
Investigated the effects of readers' gender, topic familiarity, enjoyment, and interest on second language reading. University students of Spanish completed a reading passage each day, a written recall comprehension task, and a questionnaire. Findings suggest that in addition to linguistic factors, other variables such as gender, passage content,…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Prior Learning
Applying Schema Theory to Foreign Language Reading.
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Melendez, E. Jane; Pritchard, Robert H. – Foreign Language Annals, 1985
Research on the schema theory of comprehension and cultural schemata, on background cultural knowledge, is reviewed and related to reading comprehension theory and practice. In line with the research findings, several activities for pre-reading, reading, and post-reading are described, with suggestions for teacher preparation and classroom use.…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Class Activities, Context Clues, Cultural Awareness