Author(s)

Zhang Yun ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Wenhua College, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China

Corresponding Author

Zhang Yun

ABSTRACT

This study was conducted to investigate the influence of topic familiarity on lexical reasoning processing of English majors in the course of text reading by the method of questionnaire survey and regression analysis. The results showed that a high degree of topic familiarity had a positive effect on the successful reasoning of vocabulary. There are significant differences in the success rate of lexical reasoning among the texts with significant differences in topic familiarity. The success rate of lexical reasoning is significantly higher when the reader is more familiar with the topic than when the reader is less familiar with. However, in the process of complex lexical reasoning, topic familiarity plays a limited role and is affected by learner's language level, discourse difficulty and other reader factors as well as discourse factors.

KEYWORDS

Lexical Reasoning, Topic Familiarity, Inference

CITE THIS PAPER

Zhang Yun, The Influence of Topic Familiarity on Lexical Reasoning of English Learners. Applied & Educational Psychology (2023) Vol. 4: 41-47. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2023.040306.

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