Lexis, a neglected aspect of second language acquisition (Levenston, 1979; Meara, 1980)
of the sixties and seventies, has been increasingly gaining attention in the eighties …

No text comprehension is possible, either in one's native language or in a foreign language,
without understanding the text's vocabulary. This is not to say that reading comprehension …

Both reading research and practice have undergone numerous changes in the 25 years
since TESOL was first established. The last decade, in particular, has been a time of much …

His statement is certainly accurate, despite the fact that an impoverished vocabulary is a
serious problem, especially in the area of reading comprehension, for intermediate and …

NO LONGER SEEN AS A" PASSIVE") SKILL BUT AN IN-teractive process, foreign language
reading is now receiving deserved attention from theor-ists, researchers, and teachers. Of …

Reading in a foreign language is believed to be both a reading problem and an L2 problem.
It is still unclear, however, how the two factors interact in determining the reading results in …

Across the world there are about 5,000 distinct languages and many more variations in
dialect. The Cambridge encyclopedia of language (Crystal, 1987) gives brief details of about …

The simple view of reading posits that reading comprehension can be decomposed into a
print-specific component (concerning decoding and sight word reading) and a language …

SEVERAL FIRST-LANGUAGE READING STUDIES demonstrate the importance of
vocabulary in the reading comprehension process. Davis conducted factor analyses of …

This study attempts to answer two questions concerning the reading threshold needed for
English for A cademic Purposes texts: I. How can the threshold be measured and expressed …