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While English readers rely heavily on the SVO nature of English and exhibit a word-order strategy for garnering meaning, readers of German and developing readers of German have to use morphological elements to establish meaning through understandings of case markings. , acquiring the automatic ability to process areas of the text that are critical for meaning. A Compensatory Theory of Second-Language Reading 27 At some level, an eye movement methodology was the reverse side of miscue analysis. The former looked at readers; the latter listened to readers.

Perhaps more critically, though, is whether this view is helpful toward conceptualizing and understanding the process of reading highly nuanced upper-register texts. Complexity lies in the processing of intricate, complicated and, often, obscure linguistic and cultural features accurately while trying to comprehend content and while remaining distant from it in order to assess the content’s value and accuracy. In future pages I try to explore in a more sophisticated manner what text actually means.

Chapter 2 A Compensatory Theory of Second-Language Reading Theory is important. A good theory, so I was told at the University of Minnesota, is one that synthesizes the past, explains the present, and predicts the future. In other words, a good theory accounts for previous and present findings from data collections and predicts or projects what future findings will be. Good theories are explanatory and hypothesis-generating. They are also efficient. Extensive numbers of parameters and dependencies indicate that the theory either is not stated sufficiently directly or is not nuanced adequately to enable it to account for the majority of observations of whatever phenomenon.