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50 Years of ERIC
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Lexical Guessing in Context in EFL Reading Comprehension.
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Bensoussan, Marsha; Laufer, Batia – Journal of Research in Reading, 1984
Investigates whether ESL students find some types of words easier to guess than others and whether better ESL students use context more effectively than do weaker students in guessing unknown words. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Context Clues, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Redundancy and the Cohesion Cloze.
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Bensoussan, Marsha – Journal of Research in Reading, 1990
Investigates the usefulness of using grammatical cohesion to evaluate the macro- or discourse-level, and the micro-level reading comprehension of English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) students. Finds a relationship between anaphora and coherence that contributes to reading difficulty. (MG)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis
Improving Advanced Reading Comprehension in a Foreign Language: Summaries vs. Short-Answer Questions.
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Bensoussan, Marsha; Kreindler, Isabelle – Journal of Research in Reading, 1990
Examines whether the comprehension of English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) students who were trained to summarize improved more than that of students who responded to short-answer questions. Finds that since the reading comprehension of all classes improved significantly, the study could not prove that either approach was the major cause of this…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Decoding (Reading), English (Second Language), Higher Education