Types and Frequencies of Lexical Processing Strategies Used by the Subjects

Types and Frequencies of Lexical Processing Strategies Used by the Subjects

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This study analyzed the correlation between the incidental acquisition of vocabulary using different processing strategies during reading by 56 native Chinese-speaking students studying English at a university in China. Based on top-down and bottom-up cognitive processes, the study discussed the lexical processing strategies employed by the partici...

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... the participants' verbal reports, it was clear that they generally used four types of lexical processing strategies during reading comprehension. Figure 3 shows a comparison of the frequency of processing strategies used by the participants during the reading comprehension task. ...
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... we can see in Figure 3, the most frequently used lexical processing strategy in this study was "inferring word meaning", which accounted for 35.3% of all lexical processing strategies, i.e., 2,068 times. The second most frequently used lexical processing strategy was "ignoring word meaning" (1,933 times). ...