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Direct linkDehghan, Farzaneh; Sadighi, Firooz – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2011
Reading skill has taken on an important role in most EFL teaching situations. While linguistic knowledge is only one aspect of this skill, background knowledge including culture can also play an important role (Alptekin, 2006; Johnson, 1981; Pritchard, 1990; Steffensen, Chitra, & Anderson, 1979). This study investigated the effect of cultural…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
