Revisiting the role of linguistic complexity in ESL reading comprehension

• Main Author: Barrot, Jessie S.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: Lexicology; Reading comprehension; English language—Study and teaching—Foreign speakers; English language—Syntax; English Language and Literature; Language and Literacy Education
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/585
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study investigated the two linguistic components positioned at the two ends of the continuum that influence ESL reading comprehension: lexical and syntactic features. Specifically, the present study aims to determine these two linguistic features of the texts most comprehensible to pupils. Sixt...