This research aims to investigate(1)the knowledge sources applied by foreign language students when they encounter unknown words in written text;(2)the correct rate of university-level Chinese students’L2 lexical inf...This research aims to investigate(1)the knowledge sources applied by foreign language students when they encounter unknown words in written text;(2)the correct rate of university-level Chinese students’L2 lexical inferencing and(3)the relation⁃ship between the knowledge sources and success of lexical inferencing.Questionnaire,group thinking-aloud protocols and retro⁃spective report were combined in use to examine university-level students’lexical inferencing procedures.In this study,twenty sophomore students in university were given a 330-word reading passage with 10 test items and asked to verbalize their thoughts about their inferencing.General findings of this study are(1)a variety of knowledge sources were applied by informants during this inferencing procedure,among which contextual cues were used more frequently than the other two categories of cues;(2)the correct rate of the L2 lexical inferencing is not high and(3)there is no specific relationship between knowledge sources and success of lexi⁃cal inferencing,as the results showed that different participants could achieve the same inferencing based on using different types of knowledge sources.展开更多
文摘This research aims to investigate(1)the knowledge sources applied by foreign language students when they encounter unknown words in written text;(2)the correct rate of university-level Chinese students’L2 lexical inferencing and(3)the relation⁃ship between the knowledge sources and success of lexical inferencing.Questionnaire,group thinking-aloud protocols and retro⁃spective report were combined in use to examine university-level students’lexical inferencing procedures.In this study,twenty sophomore students in university were given a 330-word reading passage with 10 test items and asked to verbalize their thoughts about their inferencing.General findings of this study are(1)a variety of knowledge sources were applied by informants during this inferencing procedure,among which contextual cues were used more frequently than the other two categories of cues;(2)the correct rate of the L2 lexical inferencing is not high and(3)there is no specific relationship between knowledge sources and success of lexi⁃cal inferencing,as the results showed that different participants could achieve the same inferencing based on using different types of knowledge sources.
