Interrelationships among Prior Knowledge, Inference, and Language Proficiency in Foreign Language Reading

complex process that occurs with few external signs along the way. Out of recent research has come a growing understanding that comprehension is not just understanding words, sentences, or even texts, but involves building a model within the mind of the comprehender. In the past, comprehension research has been widely influenced by the generative-transformational theory of language, which described comprehension as building meaning from the smallest, simplest sentence-level features. This view predominated for some time despite some evidence to the contrary. For example, in 1932 Bartlett objected to research that used simplified stimuli such as nonsense words to test the

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