Comer, William J.Keefe, Leann2009-01-092009-01-092000Comer, William J., L. Keefe. "How do Džon and Džein Read Russian? On-Line Vocabulary and its Place in the Reading Process.” in The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures, ed. O. Kagan and B. Rifkin. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2000. 311-25.0-89357-292-6https://hdl.handle.net/1808/4309When reading authentic texts, intermediate-level students face many problems (lack of vocabulary, difficulties with word order and syntax, unfamiliar target language discourse practices) that can significantly impede their comprehension. Intermediate-level students of Russian read two newspaper articles online, where they could click on any word and receive a contextual gloss. Before receiving the guess, they had to guess the meaning of the word and give a reason for their guess. The data reveal interesting patterns in student reading strategies as well as patterns of misreading.en-USForeign language readinginferencing contextual vocabularysecond language readingtechnology enhanced language learningArticleopenAccess