Lexical knowledge in the teaching of reading in foreign language

Authors

  • Patrícia Nora de Souza
  • Lúcia Kopschitz Xavier Bastos

Keywords:

lexical competence, comprehension, teaching of reading, bottom-up and top-down strategies.

Abstract

A study of the literature which supports the teaching of reading in foreign language highlights an important relation between lexical competence and comprehension, revealing the necessity of more significant pedagogical proposals to the teaching of reading which are guided by both bottom-up and top-down strategies.