The DOI matches its Crossref record; 63 of the 63 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Cultural familiarity in inferential and literal comprehension in L2 reading
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“More recently and more relevant to this study, Alptekin (2006) illustrated that when cultural elements of a short story are nativized to make the text culturally more familiar, students can make better inferences than when they read the original but culturally-remote story.”
From The effects of cultural familiarity on reading comprehension (2009) · cites this paper as Alptekin, 2006
In the citing paper
“The nativization (Alptekin, 2006) functioned as an independent variable and provided students with a locality that they were culturally familiar with.”
From The effects of cultural familiarity on reading comprehension (2009) · cites this paper as Alptekin, 2006
In the citing paper
“the results confirmed what has been widely acknowledged as the positive effect of background knowledge and cultural familiarity on reading comprehension”
From The effects of cultural familiarity on reading comprehension (2009) · cites this paper as Alptekin, 2006
In the citing paper
“Several studies have reported positive effects of cultural familiarity on reading comprehension (Alptekin, 2006;Steffensen, Joag-Dev, & Anderson, 1979) and vocabulary learning (Pulido, 2003(Pulido, , 2004)).”
From The effects of cultural familiarity on reading comprehension (2009) · cites this paper as Alptekin, 2006
Citations
Cites
(1998) · Cited by 4,875
Cairns, H. S., & Gernsbacher, M. A. (1996) · Language · doi:10.2307/416113 · Cited by 1,920
(1984) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 1,076
Progress in understanding reading: scientific foundations and new frontiers
(2000) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.38-2284 · Cited by 1,002
Schema Theory and ESL Reading Pedagogy
Carrell, P. L., & Eisterhold, J. C. (1983) · TESOL Quarterly · doi:10.2307/3586613 · Cited by 937
Teaching Reading Comprehension
Pearson, P. D., & Johnson, D. D. (1979) · The English Journal · doi:10.2307/814947 · Cited by 743
Interactive Approaches to Second Language Reading
(1988) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9781139524513 · Cited by 732
The Neurocognition of Language
(2000) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198507932.001.0001 · Cited by 590
Kelly, M. L. (1996) · Language and Speech · doi:10.1177/002383099603900107 · Cited by 544
A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Reading Comprehension
Steffensen, M. S., Joag-Dev, C., & Anderson, R. C. (1979) · Reading Research Quarterly · doi:10.2307/747429 · Cited by 482
Research works printed but not linked: 2
- Bernhardt, 2003, New directions in reading research: second language perspectives, Reading Research Quarterly, 38, 112
- Pearson, 1978
Cited by
The effects of cultural familiarity on reading comprehension
Erten, İ. H., & Razı, S. (2009) · Reading in a Foreign Language · doi:10.64152/10125/66632 · Cited by 93
“With regard to the first question, the results confirmed what has been widely acknowledged as the positive effect of background knowledge and cultural familiarity on reading comprehension (e.g., Alderson, 2000; Alptekin, 2006; Ketchum, 2006; Oller, 1995; Pulido, 2003; Steffensen et al., 1979).”
BackgroundResultThe Effects of Cultural Familiarity and Reading Activities on L2 Reading Comprehension
Gürkan, S. (2012) · Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.09.615 · Cited by 18
Metadata
- Authors
- Alptekin, C.
- Affiliations
- Bahçeşehir University (TR)
- Corresponding author
- Alptekin, Cem
- Venue
- System
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2006-12
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 494-508
- ISSN
- 0346-251X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2040581706
- Cited by
- 154
- References
- 63
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 14
- FWCI
- 2.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- Locations
- System (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Keywords
- cultural familiarity, prior knowledge, inferential comprehension, literal comprehension, second language reading, nativization, English as a foreign language, Turkish EFL learners
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
