A Review of Studies on the Selective Attention Strategy During Language Comprehension: The Present and the Future

Selective attention (SA) is an important strategy for language comprehension both in L1 and L2. Much of the existing research on L2 listening reading has identified SA as a distinctive ability effective skilled listeners readers. However, extensive intensive this specific relatively sparse. Therefore, article provides in-depth review previous involving mechanism comprehension. As result, identifies that there are two-levels academic research: word level sentence SA. They may represent different cognitive processes well strategies real practice. kind classification not been fully recognized specifically pinpointed by literature, since studies focused only one type while ignoring other. proposes to classify these two kinds then reviews literature according novel classification. In addition, summarizes most frequently investigated modulators commonly used methods SA-related research. Some possible gaps accordingly. Finally, illustrates several concepts models could explain from psychological linguistic perspectives, which serve theoretical framework future study. This offer some inspirations field or practices world.