Table 2.1 Semantic Relationship between a Word and Its Immediate Ancestor
Table 3.1 Description of the Composition of Subjects
Table 3.2 Description of the Four Passage Sight Vocabulary Tests
Table 3.3 Description of the Target Reading Passages
Table 3.4 Composition of the Target Words and Number of Words Used in the Passage Sight Vocabulary Test for Each Reading Passage Table 3.5 Results of the 1-sample K-S Test for Both Year Two and Year Four Students on the Three L2 Proficiency Tests
Table 3.6 Results of the Independent Samples T-test between Year Two and Year Four Students on the Three L2 Proficiency Tests
Table 3.7 Text Coverage of the Four Reading Passages
Table 3.8 Values of Morphological Transparency and Contextual Support of the Target Words
Table 3.9 Three Passage Sight Vocabulary Scores of an Exemplary Student
Table 3.10 A Sample to Illustrate How to Treat the Lexical Inferencing Success Raw Scores
Table 3.11 A Sample to Illustrate How to Treat the Lexical Inferening Difficulty Ratings
Table 3.12 Description of the Subjects Participating in the Retrospective Study
Table 4.1 Descriptive Statistics of Factors Concerning L2 Proficiency, Lexical Inferencing Success, and Lexical Inferencing Difficulty (Year 2)
Table 4.2 Pearson Correlations between Factors Concerning L2 Proficiency, and Lexical Inferencing Success, Lexical Inferencing Difficulty (Year 2)
Table 4.3 Descriptive Statistics of Factors Concerning L2 Proficiency, Lexical Infereneing Success, and Lexical Inferencing Difficulty (Year 4)
Table 4.4 Pearson Correlations between Factors Concerning L2 Proficiency, and Lexical Inferencing Success,Lexical Inferencing Difficulty (Year 4)
Table 4.5 Response Frequencies on the Topic Familiarity Scale
Table 4.6 Descriptive Statistics of Responses on the Topic Familiarity Scale
Table 4.7 Descriptive Statistics of Passage Sight Vocabulary,Topic Familiarity, and Lexical Infereneing Success (Year 2)
Table 4.8 Results of ANCOVA among Lexical Inferencing Success, Topic Familiarity, and Passage Sight Vocabulary (Year 2)
Table 4.9 Descriptive Statistics of Passage Sight Vocabulary, Topic Familiarity, and Lexical Inferencing Success (Year 4)
Table 4.10 Results of ANCOVA among Lexical Inferencing Success, Topic Familiarity, and Passage Sight Vocabulary (Year 4)
Table 4.11 Descriptive Statistics of Lexical Inferencing Difficulty Ratings for the Four Reading Passages
Table 4.12 Results of ANCOVA among Lexical Inferencing Difficulty, Topic Familiarity, and Passage Sight Vocabulary (Year 2)
Table 4.13 Results of ANCOVA among Lexical Inferencing Difficulty, Topic Familiarity, and Passage Sight Vocabulary (Year 4)
Table 4.14 Descriptive Statistics of Lexical Inferencing Success of Target Words in Light of Morphological Transparency and Contextual Support (Year 2)
Table 4.15 Main Effects of Morphological Transparency and Contextual Support on Lexical Infereneing Success and Their Interaction (Year 2)
Table 4.16 Descriptive Statistics of Lexieal Inferencing Success of Target Words in Light of Morphological Transparency and Contextual Support (Year 4)
Table 4.17 Main Effects of Morphological Transparency and Contextual Support on Lexical Inferencing Success and Their Interaction (Year 4)
Table 4.18 Results of the Multiple Regression Analysis of Morphological Transparency, Contextual Support, and Lexieal Infereneing Success (Year 2)
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