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Peer reviewedLaufer, Batia; Yano, Yasukata – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2001
Investigates how accurately learners can assess their understanding of words and whether this accuracy is influenced by the learners' culture, gender, and lexical knowledge. Subjects were university students of English in China, Israel, and Japan. A mismatch between the objective and perceived understanding of a reading task was related to the…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
