Example 3
A further example of note was with respect to the clause “A Securitas van is rammed by a
tractor.” Only 7% of learners did not write a response, with 93% able to provide at least a
partial response. None of the learners, however, was able to comprehend this clause fully. Several lexical items seemed to be problematic for learners. Firstly, the name of a security
company in one of the news videotexts, ‘Securitas’, was a source of confusion, with 21
learners providing an indication of the decoding problems encountered, as Table 4 shows.