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Peer reviewedCarrell, Patricia L.; Wise, Teresa E. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1998
Separates the effects of prior knowledge and topic interest on second language reading comprehension. English-as-a-Second-Language students in an English for academic purposes program read passages and took multiple-choice comprehension tests on topics for which they had all four possible combinations of high and low topic interest and high and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes, Knowledge Level, Prior Learning
