ChatGPT has shown its great power in text processing, including its reasoning ability from
text reading. However, there has not been any direct comparison between human readers …

Lexical inference strategy plays an important role in increasing the level of reading
comprehension of second or foreign language learners. Lexical inferencing as an efficient …

This study examined a group of learners' lexical inferencing strategy use, their vocabulary
size, and their success in guessing word meaning. Participants responded to a …

Previous studies on vocabulary knowledge (VK) have primarily focused on EFL learners'
vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) in relation to their breadth of VK. However, the …

EFL learners commonly infer word meanings while reading. However, previous research
suggested that a large number of lexical inferencing attempts were far from success …

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the intercomprehension processes of
multilingual Swedish L1 speakers while reading and decoding text in Italian, an unknown …

Lexical inferencing is one of the most important strategies in vocabulary learning and it plays
an important role in dealing with unknown words in a text. In this regard, the aim of this study …

The study aims at investigating the lexical inferencing strategies and frequency of each
strategy that Thai EFL postgraduates employed when encountering with unknown or …

The present study aims to explore the correlation between Chinese non-English majors'
depth of vocabulary knowledge (DVK) and their lexical inferencing strategy use and …

The empirical study reported in this essay concerns Swedish university level learners of
English as a foreign language (EFL) and their lexical inferencing skills, that is, their ability to …