Foreign language (FL) reading is regarded as a complex, multifaceted cognitive skill, which draws on many
knowledge sources and processes ranging from lower level processes, such as decoding, to higher level ones
involving text comprehension and integration of text ideas with the reader's prior knowledge (Koda, 2007).
Furthermore, reading is viewed as an interaction process between the text and the reader (Carrell, 1988; Hudson,
1998; Psaltou-Joyce, 2010) during which readers deploy a variety of strategies to achieve comprehension, the major
goal of reading. In this context, successful comprehension emerges, when the reader extracts information from the
text and combines it with existing knowledge (Koda, 2005).