7.2
Flexible approaches to reading

Many L2 learners find it difficult to suppress the desire to understand everything in a text, to accept that with many pieces of L2 writing they can get away with using only the minimum of syntactic and semantic clues to meaning. It is curious that many learners feel guilty about adopting such tactics, when they already employ them in English, even though they may not always be aware of the fact.

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