Inference Use by Chinese College Learners in L2 Text Comprehension
Inference Use by Chinese College Learners in L2 Text Comprehension作者机构:广西师范学院师园学院
出 版 物:《海外英语》 (Overseas English)
年 卷 期:2014年第4X期
页 面:8-11页
学科分类:0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学]
主 题:inferring strategies schema theory top-down proces
摘 要:Schema theory is an influential approach to text comprehension, which can account for inferring process in L2 text reading. According to the schema theory, comprehending a text is an interactive process between the reader s prior knowledge(top-down processing) and the text(bottom-up processing). Both top-down and bottom-up processing are necessary for the inferring in reading comprehension. This paper explores how good and poor Chinese learners adopts top-down processing and bottom-up processing to make inferences in L2 reading, and finds some differences and similarities in using textual materials and background knowledge to make inferences in L2 reading by good and poor Chinese EFL learners respectively.