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Cultural familiarity in inferential and literal comprehension in L2 reading
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“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.”
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“The nativization (Alptekin, 2006) functioned as an independent variable and provided students with a locality that they were culturally familiar with.”
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“the results confirmed what has been widely acknowledged as the positive effect of background knowledge and cultural familiarity on reading comprehension”
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“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)).”
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The effects of cultural familiarity on reading comprehension
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“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).”
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- 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
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