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Various Latin American authors treat violence as a principal theme in their works. This inquiry examines the topic familiarity levels and comprehension of university level male and female second language (L2) readers with two different authentic violence-oriented texts. During two different testing periods 68 participants received: a 700 word reading passage, a written recall task, a multiple-choice test, and a questionnaire. The passages were by Horacio Quiroga, "The Decapitated Chicken " (DC), and the other by Mempo Giardinelli, "Slaughter at Naptime " (SN). While results revealed no significant gender differences in reported topic familiarity levels, females recalled more idea units and scored higher on the multiple choice than the males did for the DC passage, and these differences were significant. For the SN passage, no significant gender differences were found with both comprehension assessment tasks. The results of this study showed that while male and female readers at the advanced levels of instruction indicated being equally familiar with violence-oriented content of the target culture, females outscored their male counterparts on L2 comprehension tasks for texts that involved male-to-female violence. The overall findings indicate that females may have an advantage over males in the free written recall procedure. Though the results provide support for a multifarious model of L2 reading (Bernhardt, 1991), one cannot make the generalization that the apparent gender difference in the comprehension of passage DC is due to the victim’s gender. Consequently, future research should demonstrate this effect in the opposite direction with learners at various levels.
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