Abstract This study aimed to determine as to whether or not the text type and strategy usage affect the EFL learners’ lexical inferencing performance. The participants were comprised of 87 first-year English majors at a technical university. Data were collected from (1) a lexical inferencing test with excerpts of narrative and expository texts, for which both multiple-choice and definition tasks were designed, respectively, and then (2) the responses from the learners’ self-reported strategy usage. The quantitative analyses demonstrated that the text types significantly affected the EFL learners’ lexical inferencing performance, in which the EFL learners performed better for the narrative excerpt than for the expository texts. However, significant coefficients between the strategy use and the lexical inferencing performance were not found in this study. The results further implied that the text structure and the lexical inferencing strategies should be explicitly taught to the EFL learners.

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文本类型和策略使用在 L2 词法推理中的作用

摘要 本研究旨在确定文本类型和策略使用是否影响英语学习者的词汇推理能力。参与者由一所技术大学的 87 名一年级英语专业学生组成。数据来自 (1) 词汇推理测试，其中包括叙述和说明文本的摘录，分别为其设计了多项选择和定义任务，然后 (2) 来自学习者自我报告的策略使用的反应。定量分析表明，文本类型显着影响了 EFL 学习者的词汇推理能力，其中 EFL 学习者在叙事节选方面的表现优于说明性文本。然而，在这项研究中没有发现策略使用和词汇推理性能之间的显着系数。结果进一步暗示应该明确地向EFL学习者教授文本结构和词汇推理策略。