Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

Lexical inferencing functions as one of the most important and effective skills used in
language comprehension pertaining to psychological, cognitive and neurological aspects …

Vocabulary learning strategies are learners' conscious efforts in managing their own
learning of vocabulary. Learners use metacognitive and cognitive vocabulary strategies to …

This study investigated the role of morphological and contextual information in inferring the
meaning of unknown L2 words during reading. Four groups of college‐level ESL students …

Learners' ability to infer unknown words' meanings (lexical inferencing) plays a key role in
word knowledge development for second language (L2) learners. It has recently been …

This article reports on the results of an empirical study which investigated the use of a
monolingual dictionary by advanced Cantonese ESL learners for determining the correct …

This article reports on the results of a study which investigated advanced Cantonese English
as a Second Language (ESL) learners' use of a monolingual dictionary for determining the …

The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the effects of perceptual learning style
preferences on L2 lexical inferencing and whether learners with certain perceptual learning …

Smartphones have turned out to be in the centre of human life covering all fields. They can
be assumed as an indispensable part of our lives and furthermore they can be symbolized …

Recent second language (L2) reading studies have examined how characteristics of an
individual learner and word-specific linguistic properties jointly predict successful L2 word …