Publications

Publication details [#30606]

DuBravac, Stayc and Mathieu Dalle. 2002. Reader question formation as a tool for measuring comprehension: narrative and expository textual inferences in a second language. Journal of Research in Reading 25 (2) : 217.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

exposition | inference | L2-acquisition | narrative | reading comprehension

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers Associates, Inc.

ISBN

0141-0423

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/jrir

Annotation

This study demonstrates that students performing a comprehension task in a second language, using narrative and expository texts, generated more inferences for narrative texts whilst showing more miscomprehension for expository texts.