Despite major theoretical developments in second language (L2) reading comprehension
over the last two decades, many attempts at explaining the role of knowledge in …

This critical volume, provides an in-depth analysis of second language reading's multiple
dimensions. The paperback edition describes the complexity of reading and explains how …

What readers comprehend and learn from their reading depends in part on the knowledge
that they bring to the text. In this chapter, the authors describe theoretical accounts of the role …

This study investigated the role of higher–level syntactic and semantic processes and lower–
level word recognition and graphophonic processes in adult English as a second language …

This study examines how topic familiarity and working memory capacity affect beginning
Spanish learners' reading comprehension and their processing of future tense morphology …

This study explores the role of culturally familiar background knowledge in inferential and
literal comprehension in L2 reading. Ninety-eight Turkish EFL (English as a Foreign …

This study aims to investigate the effect of different types of glosses as well as no‐gloss and
glossed texts on L2 vocabulary learning. A total of 90 university students in Korea …

The study examines the relationship between second language (L2) passage
comprehension and intake (form recognition), gain (meaning recognition and production) …

How is knowledge represented and organized in the mind? What role does it play in
discourse comprehension and interpretation? What are the exact mechanisms whereby …

Skilled readers are often characterized as more metacognitively aware than less skilled
readers. This questionnaire study of 160 students at a medical university in Bahrain …