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Peer reviewedArden-Close, Christopher – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1993
Compares strategies used to infer the meanings of unknown words by three NNS readers--a good reader, an average reader, and a poor reader--from a series of six readings. The good reader uses a wider range of strategies than the weaker ones; all readers "read in" meanings from their own specialized subject (in this case chemistry). (15…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Case Studies, College Students, Comparative Analysis
