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Interplay Between Reading Tasks, Reader Variables and Unknown Word Processing |
Adina Levine and
Thea Reves |
Abstract |
The study was set up to answer the following questions:
In the word-treatment experiment, the subjects were asked to read a text for global and close reading comprehension and to underline words unknown to them by indicating which of the three categories they belonged to:
The results of the study confirm that word treatment strategies are undoubtedly dependent on the type of the [-1-] reading task and to some extent also on the reader's reading profile. Readers whose reading habits and problem solving abilities are more developed and whose inferencing skills are more alert, are also more self- confident vis-a-vis the unknown words in the text; they resort to the dictionary mainly to verify their own inferences.
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Keywords: reading, strategies, comprehension, ESL, vocabulary
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