Successful Idiom Solving Strategies While Reading and Reading Time with Trained and Untrained Learners

The present article examines the outcomes derived from a task on intensive reading carried out by university students. The main goal is to analyze the frequency of use and the success of idiom solving strategies used by the subjects while reading. Additionally, our interest is to compare the above o...

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Published inThe reading matrix Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 96 - 108
Main Author Angel, Rosalina Domínguez
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Reading Matrix, Inc 01.09.2014
Subjects
Comparative Analysis
Context Effect
Figurative Language
Foreign Countries
Inferences
Learning Strategies
Mexico
Outcomes of Education
Questionnaires
Reading Comprehension
Reading Processes
Reading Rate
Reading Strategies
Retention (Psychology)
Scores
Student Attitudes
Task Analysis
Undergraduate Students
Vocabulary Development
Mexico
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Summary:The present article examines the outcomes derived from a task on intensive reading carried out by university students. The main goal is to analyze the frequency of use and the success of idiom solving strategies used by the subjects while reading. Additionally, our interest is to compare the above outcomes and the reading time scores of a group of trained learners with the results obtained by untrained learners. The results provide evidence to confirm three hypotheses posed in relation to (a) differences in the use of inferring from context, (b) the times that unknown words were ignored, and (c) the reading time related to the retention of words between trained and untrained university level learners.
ISSN:1533-242X
1533-242X