Open AccessLexical-semantic integration by good and poor reading comprehenders
Author(s) -
Lucilene Bender de Sousa,
Lilian Cristine Hübner,
Roselaine Berenice Ferreira da Silva
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ilha do desterro
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.223
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2175-8026
pISSN - 0101-4846
DOI - 10.5007/2175-8026.2020v73n1p63
Subject(s) - vocabulary , reading comprehension , computer science , comprehension , natural language processing , reading (process) , psychology , cognitive psychology , linguistics , artificial intelligence , philosophy , programming language
In this paper, we investigate the level of vocabulary knowledge and the lexical-integration ability of good and poor comprehenders at the 8th grade of Elementary School. The participants were assessed in the following tasks: reading comprehension, listening comprehension, decoding, vocabulary, lexical-semantic integration and incongruence detection. The performance comparison revealed that good comprehenders performed significantly better than poor comprehenders in the measures of vocabulary and integration. The difference in the accuracy of the integration tasks remained significant after controlling for word knowledge. The results suggest that good and poor comprehenders differentiate not only in lexical semantic knowledge but also in lexical-semantic processing.