Cultural familiarity in inferential and literal comprehension in L2 reading

System

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 494-508

  Alptekin, Cem ^a  

^a BAHCESEHIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Foreign language culture; Inferential comprehension; Literal comprehension; Nativization; Schemas

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751316992     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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