Lexical inferencing strategies: The case of successful versus less successful inferencers

System ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 27-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsueh-chao Marcella Hu ◽  
Hossein Nassaji
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Inferencing

The role of text type and strategy use in L2 lexical inferencing

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-252
Author(s):  
Ming-yueh Shen
Keyword(s):  
Strategy Use ◽  
Text Structure ◽  
Expository Texts ◽  
First Year ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Lexical Inferencing ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Quantitative Analyses

Abstract This study aimed to determine as to whether or not the text type and strategy usage affect the EFL learners’ lexical inferencing performance. The participants were comprised of 87 first-year English majors at a technical university. Data were collected from (1) a lexical inferencing test with excerpts of narrative and expository texts, for which both multiple-choice and definition tasks were designed, respectively, and then (2) the responses from the learners’ self-reported strategy usage. The quantitative analyses demonstrated that the text types significantly affected the EFL learners’ lexical inferencing performance, in which the EFL learners performed better for the narrative excerpt than for the expository texts. However, significant coefficients between the strategy use and the lexical inferencing performance were not found in this study. The results further implied that the text structure and the lexical inferencing strategies should be explicitly taught to the EFL learners.

5. L1 Influences in L2 Lexical Inferencing

2015 ◽  
pp. 76-106
Author(s):  
T. Sima Paribakht ◽  
Marjorie Bingham Wesche
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Inferencing
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