The knowlege of the world and reading comprehension in Spanish as a foreign language
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https://doi.org/10.18778/0860-6587.23.07Keywords:
reading in a foreign language, understanding literary texts, the knowledge of the world, Spanish as a foreign languageAbstract
The aim of the article is to give insight into reading comprehension and the role of prior knowledge in reading literary texts in Spanish as a foreign language. In order to achieve this, the author conducted a survey to investigate understanding and inferencing in understanding of the culturally marked text elements in three literary texts fragments. The subjects were students of the first and the second year of Spanish language and literature. The results indicate that it requires both linguistic and cultural knowledge to establish adequate comprehension and that the knowledge of the language cannot compensate for insufficient knowledge of the world.
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