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- Title
L2 Reading Comprehension: Exclusively L2 Competence or Different Competences?
- Authors
Siping Liu
- Abstract
This paper is a literature review focusing on reading English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL). It reviews the recent empirical studies in ESL/EFL reading and by so doing it intends to lay a theoretical foundation for the development of valid tests on reading comprehension and set directions for further research on ESL/EFL reading tests. First, the paper reviews the major reading models including bottom-up, top-down, interactive and interactive-compensatory models. Next it discusses the meaning of comprehension in ESL/EFL. Finally based on the review, it raises questions for further study.
- Subjects
COMPREHENSION strategies; ENGLISH as a foreign language; STUDY &; teaching of reading comprehension; READING comprehension ability testing; ACADEMIC achievement; STUDENTS' language; SYNTAX in the English language
- Publication
Journal of Language Teaching & Research, 2014, Vol 5, Issue 5, p1085
- ISSN
1798-4769
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4304/jltr.5.5.1085-1091