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  • 3 - How Reading Works: Comprehension Processes

  • from Part I - Foundations of Reading
  • William Grabe, Northern Arizona University, Junko Yamashita, Nagoya University, Japan
  • Book:
    Reading in a Second Language
    Published online:
    01 September 2022
    Print publication:
    08 September 2022, pp 55-83

  • Summary

    Chapter 3: Comprehension Processes. This chapter describes higher-level processes and how both lower- and higher-level processes work together to form a mental text representation and a situation model of reading. Key features of higher-level processing include the following: text representation, situation model processing skills associated with working memory, background knowledge, and executive function resources. Key concepts include passive resonance processing, bridging inferences, the now-or-never bottleneck, lexical processing, incremental item-based learning, Kintsch’s Construction-Integration model of reading, a two-level account of reading comprehension, genre variations in text processing, working memory as executive function, other executive functions, attentional processing, inferencing, metacognitive and metalinguistic awareness, strategy use, goal setting, and comprehension monitoring. The chapter concludes with implications for instruction.