Raúl Ruiz Cecilia

Estudio empírico sobre la incidencia del léxico en la comprensión de la lengua extranjera

This paper examines the importance of vocabulary in the comprehension and interpretation of L2 texts for the language learner. In order to achieve this, a group of students from the University of Granada (Spain) was asked to participate in a reading program organized by the Research Group HUM-457 Language and Literature Teaching. Consequently, the participants highlight that a minimum lexical coverage (96%) is needed if attempts are made to access the text from a comprehensive and/or interpretative perspective. In addition, we collect the reading strategies they are forced to use for avoiding lexical barriers.