Abstract

HERNANDEZ PASTUZANO, Martha Isabel  and  HERNANDEZ GAVIRIA, Fanny. Lexical strategies of engineers for the reader context. Leng. [online]. 2019, vol.47, n.2, pp.379-408. ISSN 0120-3479.  https://doi.org/10.25100/lenguaje.v47i2.6998.

This article shows the results of a case study with a group of engineering students in a public university in Colombia. The aim of the study was to explore the lexical processing strategies used by this group of students, the frequency of use, and its effectiveness. Data was collected through reading comprehension workshops and think-aloud protocols, in which students reported the steps they followed to cope with unknown words when reading English texts from their field. Results showed that the participants in the study know and make use of a wide range or strategies to interpret new words when reading professional texts. However, the most frequently used strategies are rarely the most effective and those recognized as the most effective are seldom used by a few students. These results might be a good source for the design and development of teaching units aiming at improving reading comprehension in students of the engineering area.

Keywords : lexical processing strategies; ESP; reading comprehension; academic language.

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